VIII.

Bring, bring, ye Graces, all your silver flaskets,

Painted with every choicest flower that grows,

That I may soon unflower your fragrant baskets,

To strow the fields with odours where he goes,

Let whatsoe'er he treads on be a rose.

So down she let her eyelids fall, to shine

Upon the rivers of bright Palestine,

Whose woods drop honey, and her rivers skip with wine.

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