Goddess or maiden so divinely fraught.

Not Helen's self, for whom the Trojans fought,

Was like to thee. Her love had much alloy,

But thine has none. Her beauty was a toy,

But thine's a gem, unsullied and unbought.

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And ne'er was seen by poet, in a sweven,

An eye like thine, a face so fair to see

As that which makes the sunlight sweet to me.

Nor need I wait for death, or for the levin