Forbid her any more for Eros’ wife.’

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Then Aphrodite said ‘So let it be.’

And Psyche was brought in, with such a flush

Of joy upon her face, as there to see

Was fairer to love’s eye than beauty’s blush.

And then she drank the eternal wine, whose draught

Can Terror cease: which flesh hath never quafft,

Nor doth it flow from grape that mortals crush.

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