Of rose and pink and crimson freak’d with blue,

And olive-border’d clouds o’er lilac led.

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High in the opposèd west the wondering moon

All silvery green in flying green was fleec’t;

And round the blazing South the splendour soon

Caught all the heaven, and ran to North and East;

And Aphrodite knew the thing was wrought

By cunning of Poseidon, and she thought

She would go see with whom he kept his feast.