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TEMPTATION
Zeus in his sovereign heaven is wont to seeClear cut for joy and mixed with deity
The naked limbs of goddesses—his Queen,
In the cerulean air of perfumed sheen,
Overt in glorious marble, 'mid the blaze
From sapphire peacock eyes of lidless gaze;
Venus with disapparelled roses wide
A' tingle as her body to the light;
Or Hebe with the long uplifted side
When she pours wine down from her veilless height.
Of these Zeus is not amorous,
They raise in him no flame:
But when he came
Where sate the daughter of Acrisius,
In her little house of stone,
Clad in linen, all alone,
Clad in linen finely wove,
Straight he stared and plotted love.
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