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Deaths assists not at her marriage.html">marriage but at her own obsequies, and while the
to them: "Wherefore torment your luckless age by long weeping? This
us with divine.html">divine.html">divine honours, and in one voice named the New Venus, it was
understand that that one name of Venus has been my ruin. Lead me and
well-omened marriage, to behold that goodly spouse. Why delay the
proceeded to the appointed place on a steep mountain.html">mountain, and left there
wretched parents, in their close-shut house, yielded themselves to
sore upon the mountain-top, comes the gentle Zephyrus. He lifts her
soft breathing over the windings of the hills, and sets her lightly
dewy bed, rested from the agitation of her soul and arose in peace.
glass, in the midst; and hard by the water, a dwelling-place, built
at the entering, the delightful hostelry of a god. Golden pillars
The walls were hidden under wrought silver:--all tame and woodland
was the craftsman, divine or half-divine, who by the subtlety of his
was distinct with pictures in goodly stones. In the glow of its
sun. Well might it seem a place fashioned for the conversation of
courage growing, stood within the doorway. One by one, she admired
chain, nor living guardian protected that great treasure house. But
bodily vesture--"Mistress!" it said, "all these things are thine.
thou.html">thou wilt. We thy servants, whose [67] voice thou hearest, will be
refreshed with sleep and the Bath, sat down to the feast. Still she
voices alone to serve her. And the feast being ended, one entered
of a harp, invisible with him who played on it. Afterwards the sound
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