I heard a rustic call it so.”

Thus he spoke, and she the while

Heard him with a soothing smile;

Then said, “My infant, if so much

Thou feel the little wild bee’s touch,

How must the heart, ah, Cupid! be—

The hapless heart that’s stung by thee?”

Thomas Moore.
(Odes of Anacreon.)

CUPID’S BIRTH