Folk flying from the peak, who, ever more

Flying and flying, lighted on the floor,

Hail! cried they, wife of Eros, adorèd queen!

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A hurtling of the battl’d air disturb’d

Her sunken sense, and waked her eyes to meet

The kingly bird of Zeus, himself that curb’d

His swooping course, alighting at her feet;

With motion gentle, his far-darting eye

In kindness dim’d upon her, he drew nigh,