To Venus

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Venus, dear Cnidian-Paphian queen!
  Desert that Cyprus way off yonder,
And fare you hence, where with incense
  My Glycera would have you fonder;
And to your joy bring hence your boy,
  The Graces with unbelted laughter,
The Nymphs, and Youth,--then, then, in sooth,
  Should Mercury come tagging after.

© Eugene Field