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An Imitation Of Anacreon

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PAINTER in Paphos and Cythera famed     Depict, I pray, the absent Iris' face.     Thou hast not seen the lovely nymph I've named;     The better for thy peace. - Then will I trace     For thy instruction her transcendent grace.     Begin with lily white and blushing rose,     Take then the Loves and Graces... But what good     Words, idle words? for Beauty's Goddess could     By Iris be replaced, nor one suppose     The secret fraud - their grace so equal shows.     Thou at Cythera couldst, at Paphos too,     Of the same Iris Venus form anew.

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