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Before those cruel Twins, whom at one birth / Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, / Error and Truth, had hunted from the Earth / All those bright natures which adorned its prime, / And left us nothing to believe in, worth / The pains of putting into learned rhyme, / A lady-witch there lived on Atlas' mountain / Within a cavern, by a secret fountain.
Her mother was one of the Atlantides: / The all-beholding Sun had ne'er beholden / In his wide voyage o'er continents and seas / So fair a creature, as she lay enfolden / In the warm shadow of her loveliness; - / He kissed her with his beams, and made all golden / The chamber of gray rock in which she lay- / She, in that dream of joy, dissolved away.