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Excerpt from Poems
Breathing the fumes of devotion, clothing with incense the sacrifice.
Bright 'mid the damsels of Delos, bright with the blush of emotion, Moved the fair form of Cydippe, lithe as the bough of a linden.
Richly her ringlets of auburn strayed thro' the woof of the network, Binding the braid of her tresses, clasped with a brooch like the grasshopper.
Delicate, yet all perceptible, 'neath the white folds of her garment, Swelling with exquisite symmetry, ripened the charms of her bosom.
Downward, with rustle voluptuous, streamed her robe, dyed like the crocus, Gemmed o'er her knee with an emerald, and ?owing down where her ankles, Moulded with lustre like ivory, glimmered as stars thro' the twilight.
Clear o'er the strophes of the harmony chimed her soft accents of Silver, Accents of ravishing sweetness, tones of bewitching vibration.
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