Pendant or loop’d about her head divine,
Lay hidden half beneath a golden veil,
Bright as the rippling ocean in sunshine:
And on the ground, flashing whene’er she stept,
Beneath her feet the dazzling lightnings lept
From the gold network of her sandals fine.
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Thus Hera stood in royal guise bedeckt
Before poor Psyche on the stair that knelt,
Whose new-nursed hope at that display was checkt,