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First Line: Hail, goddess! Queen of time's renowned estate
Last Line: And man, for love of thee, forgets his pain!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


Hail, goddess! Queen of time's renowned estate,
On whose fair brow the deathless laurel shines,
And for whose smile the proudest mortal pines
With ardor ceaseless and insatiate.
When Cæsar dared the sorcery of fate
And outlined with his sword the world's confines
He worshiped at thy glory-gilded shrines—
Grand relics, then, of ages old and great.

Ah! could the memoirs thy papyrus scrolls
Retain be stamped upon the souls of men,
Perhaps thy smile were not so witching then,
And few would perish in ambition's shoals.
But now thy trumpet sounds a glad refrain,
And man, for love of thee, forgets his pain!





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