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by Unknown

Ay, weak the fable—false the ground—

Sweet Psyche veiled her face—

Well knowing Love, if ever found,

Will never leave his place.

Unfound as yet, and weary grown,

She had mistook another:

’Twas but Love’s semblance she had found—

Not Eros, but his brother!

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