What place the goddess meant, arrived whereat

She might descend to hell, or how should find

The way which Gods to living men deny.

‘No Orpheus, nay, nor Hercules am I,’

Said she,‘to loosen where the great Gods bind.’

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And when at length the long-delaying dawn

Broke on the peaks of huge Taÿgetus,

And Psyche through the skirts of dark withdrawn

Look’d on that promontory mountainous,