There as it chanct he found that snowy bird
Of Crete, that late made mischief with his queen,
And now along the cliffs with wings unstir’d
Sail’d, and that morn had cross’d the sea between:
Whom as he past he hail’d, and question’d thus,
‘O snowy gull, if thou from Tænarus
Be come, say, hast thou there my Psyche seen?’
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The gull replied ‘Thy Psyche have I seen;
Walking beside the sea she joy’th to bear