The tale of Psyche loved and Eros burnt,
She ne’er so long had kept aloof and dumb.
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Wherefore that duteous gossip of Love’s queen
Devised that he the messenger would be;
And rising from the rock, he skim’d between
The chasing waves—such grace have none but he;—
Into the middle deep then down he dived,
And rowing with his glistening wings arrived
At Aphrodite’s bower beneath the sea.