The House Of Venus

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Not that Queen Venus of adulterous fame, Whose love was lust's insatiable flame - Not hers the house I would be singer in Whose loose-lipped servants seek a weary sin: But mine the Venus of that morning flood With all the dawn's young passion in her blood, With great blue eyes and unpressed bosom sweet. Her would I sing, and of the shy retreat Where Love first kissed her wondering maidenhood, And He and She first stood, with eyes afraid, In the most golden House that God has made.

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