'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great,
And Venus who brings everything that's fair!
ODE
Composed 1816.—Published 1816
Included in 1820 among the "Poems of the Imagination," afterwards placed among the "Sonnets dedicated to Liberty."—Ed.
I
Who rises on the banks of Seine,
And binds her temples with the civic wreath?
What joy to read the promise of her mien!