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First Line: Venus, cast from heaven forlorn
Last Line: Piping to eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


VENUS, cast from heaven forlorn,
Came to Pan for counsel wise.
In her hair was all the Morn:
All the Sea was in her eyes.

Brief his word was: "Let us twain
Earth's dominion 'twixt us part;
I, on her cool breast to reign --
Thou, within her burning heart."

So her secret court she holds,
Far 'neath roots of rock and tree;
He, in vales and woods and wolds,
Piping to eternity.





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