on white honey-comb,

lends radiance to the white wax,

so your hair on your brow

casts light for a shadow.

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WHY HAVE YOU SOUGHT

Why have you sought the Greeks, Eros,

when such delight was yours

in the far depth of sky:

there you could note bright ivory

take colour where she bent her face,

and watch fair gold shed gold

on radiant surface of porch and pillar:

and ivory and bright gold,

polished and lustrous grow faint

beside that wondrous flesh

and print of her foot-hold:

Love, why do you tempt the Grecian porticoes?

Here men are bent with thought

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