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First Line: Mystery: lo! Betwixt the sun and moon
Last Line: Betwixt the sun and moon a mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess)


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MYSTERY: lo! betwixt the sun and moon
Astarte of the Syrians: Venus Queen
Ere Aphrodite was. In silver sheen
Her twofold girdle clasps the infinite boon
Of bliss whereof the heaven and earth commune:
And from her neck's inclining flower-stem lean
Love-freighted lips and absolute eyes that wean
The pulse of hearts to the spheres' dominant tune.

Torch-bearing, her sweet ministers compel
All thrones of light beyond the sky and sea
The witnesses of Beauty's face to be:
That face, of Love's all-penetrative spell
Amulet, talisman, and oracle,--
Betwixt the sun and moon a mystery.





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