To Cyprus, watered by the waves around:

And here she walks, endowed with every grace

To charm, the goddess blooming in her face;

Her looks demand respect, and where she goes

Beneath her tender feet the herbage blows;

And Aphrodite, from the foam, her name,

Among the race of gods and men the same;

And Cytheræa from Cythera came;

Whence, beauteous crown'd, she safely cross'd the sea,

And call'd, O Cyprus, Cypria from thee;