Upon two rocks that lie within the bight,

Under the headland, barren and alone;

Which, being with the scatter’d feathers strewn,

Were, by the folk named Leukæ, which is White.

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Thereon about this time the snowy gull,

Minion of Aphrodite, being come,

Plumed himself, standing on the sea-wrack dull,

That drifted from the foot of Cyamum;

And ’twas his thought, that had the goddess learnt