XV

And one weeps with him in the ways Lethean,

And stains with tears her changing bosom chill;

That obscure Venus of the hollow hill,

That thing transformed which was the Cytherean,

With lips that lost their Grecian laugh divine

Long since, and face no more called Erycine

A ghost, a bitter and luxurious god.

Thee also with fair flesh and singing spell

Did she, a sad and second prey, compel

Into the footless places once more trod,

And shadows hot from hell.

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