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Is this thy Paphos,-the devoted place / Where rests, in its own eventide, thy shrine? / To thee not lone is solitude divine / Where love-dreams o'er thy waves each other chase / And melt into the passion of thy face! / The twilight waters, dolphin-stained, are thine; / The silvery depths and blue, moon-orbed, entwine, / And in bright films thy rosy form embrace,- / Girdling thy loins with heaven-spun drapery / Wove in the looms of thy resplendent sea. / The columns point their shadows to the plain / And ancient days are dialed o'er again; / The floods remember: falling at thy feet, / Upon the sands of time they ever beat.