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On Seeing The Apollo Belvidere

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What majesty! what elegance and grace!     The form how perfect! how divine the face!     In admiration rapt, I gazing stand:     Is this a statue wrought by mortal hand?     No! 'tis Apollo's self, methinks I see;     I feel the presence of the Deity.

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