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A Poetical Translation of the works of Horace

With the Original Text, and Critical Notes collected from his best Latin and French Commentators. By the Revd Mr. Philip Francis...The third edition
  

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Ode XXX. To Venus.

Queen of Beauty, Queen of Smiles,
Leave, oh! leave thy favourite Isles:
A Temple rises to thy Fame,
Where Glycera invokes thy Name,
And bids the fragrant Incense flame.
With Thee bring thy love-warm Son,
The Graces bring with flowing Zone,
The Nymphs, and jocund Mercury,
And smiling Youth, who without Thee
Is nought but savage Liberty.