She had return’d unto the courts of Heaven,

And ’mong the immortals liv’d at peace again:

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Whose smile told Aphrodite that they knew

The meaning of her visit; and a flush

Of anger answer’d them, while hot she grew.

But Hera laugh’d outright: ‘Why thou dost blush!

Now see we modest manners on my life!

And all thy little son has got a wife

Can make the crimson to thy forehead rush.