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The Works of Horace In English Verse

By several hands. Collected and Published By Mr. Duncombe. With Notes Historical and Critical
Duncombe, John (1729-1786)
  
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ODE XXX. To Venus.

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O Venus! whose propitious Care
Thy Cnidus and thy Paphos share,
Forsake thy favour'd Cyprian Plain,
To visit now the decent Fane
Of Glycera; whose Frankincense invites,
High-pil'd, thy Presence at her humble Rites.

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Each Grace attending on her Queen,
Array'd in flowing Robes, be seen;
And let the Nymphs approach with thee,
Thy glowing Boy and Mercury,
With Youth's blithe Goddess, ever wont to prove
Joyless and rude, if unrefin'd by Love.
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