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