Some Gods do not disdain to dwell beside!

The Seasons

Bk. V. vv. 736-746

The pageant of the Seasons! Venus comes; She brings with her,

As leader of the revel, winged Zephyr, Spring’s harbinger.

And Flora has spread a carpet, finer was never wove,

All hues and fragrances, to be trod by the Queen of Love.

Next enters red-hot Summer; but its droughts are lightly borne

By good Goddess Ceres; for they ripen the standing corn