Hath duty to support our feeble frame,—

Till all was set in order, and at length

Up to the threshold of the shrine she came:

When lo! before her face with friendly smile,

Tall as a pillar of the peristyle,

The goddess stood reveal’d, and call’d her name.

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‘Unhappy Psyche,’ said she, ‘know’st thou not

How Aphrodite to thy hurt is sworn?

And thou, thy peril and her wrath forgot,