‘Show me the way.’ But Aphrodite said,
‘That mayst thou find. Yet I will place thee whence
A way there is: mortals have on it sped;
Ay, and return’d thereby: so let us hence.’
Then swift to earth her willing prey she bore,
And left her on the wide Laconian shore,
Alone, at midnight, in the darkness dense.
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’Twas winter; and as shivering Psyche sat
Waiting for morn, she question’d in her mind