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LETTER VII. TO CHLOE: ON Seeing her Picture IN A GALLERY.

Madam,

As in our Hemisphere
The Stars all glorious appear;
Still there are some the rest outshine.
So here all seem of Form divine:
Yet there are Graces which I view
More peculiarly in You.
Oh! that like Paris I was bid
The Controversy to decide:
Freely my Thoughts I would declare,
Tho' Pallas here, and Juno there.
Thou Venus still should'st be to me,
The Fairest Goddess of the Three.