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I would bring them again unto you, / The gods with broad and placid brows; / And for you have I wrought their images / Of carven ivory and gold; / That your lips may be shaped to praise them, / And your praises be laughter and all delights of the body, / Dancing and exultation, a dance of torches / In scarlet sandals, with burnished targes: / A dance of boys by the wine-press / Naked, with must-stained purple thighs: / Of young girls by the river in saffron vesture / Dancing to smitten strings and reed flutes.
Praise then mine images: Helios; Artemis, / With a leash of straining hounds: and the Foam-born.