| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| “MISTRESS of gods and men! I have been thine | |
| From boy to man, and many a myrtle rod | |
| Have I made grow upon thy sacred sod, | |
| Nor ever have I pass’d thy white shafts nine | |
| Without some votive offering for the shrine, | 5 |
| Carv’d beryl or chas’d bloodstone;—aid me now, | |
| And I will live to fashion for thy brow | |
| Heart-breaking priceless things: oh, make her mine.” | |
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| Venus inclin’d her ear, and through the Stone | |
| Forthwith slid warmth like spring through sapling-stems, | 10 |
| And lo, the eyelid stirr’d, beneath had grown | |
| The tremulous light of life, and all the hems | |
| Of her zon’d peplos shook. Upon his breast | |
| She sank, by two dread gifts at once oppress’d. | |
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