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'Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo    Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua
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When Kneller's works, of various grace,
Were to fair Venus shown,
The Goddess spied in every
Some features of her own

Down the long hall she glistens like a star,
The foam-born mother of Love, transfixed to stone,
Yet none the less immortal, breathing on
Time's brutal hand hath maimed but could not mar

The dull earth swung in silence o’er, A dreamless world, a dreary star,
Until the doves of Venus bore To Thessaly her ivory car
She whispered to the sea and air, And lightly with her wand she
The solid earth, till everywhere The bir...