De Flagello Myrteo Ccclx Thoughts And Fancies On Love
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cxxix Eros smiles when he beholds the olive of Pallas feeding the lamp of Herd. cxxx Pallas, Poseidon, claimed the victor's meed When with her olive she overcame thy steed : Yet sure the goodly growth was owed to thee, For most it prospers nighest to the sea, And, would man's care conserve the fruit benign, Embalmed must it be in bitter brine. 33 DE FLAGELLO MYRTEO " Lamp,'* said Psyche, " I have lit thee to guide me to Eros; yet didst thou instead guide Eros to me, this also were marvellous we...ll." CXXXII Lamp new enkindled, Life with Love requite : Eros to me, or me to Eros light. The myrtle emblems not only love but faithful love; for it is evergreen, and its fra- grance depends not upon the fleeting blos- som but upofi the aromatic sap which is the life of its life. cxxxiv **Hast thou with myrtle-wreath crowned him, O Pleasure ? ** {A Modern Sappho) To expect Love's enduring myrtle from the hand of Pleasure is to look to gather grapes from roses. cxxxv The heroine of Naxos sank o'erwhelmed, And perished 'neath the laurel and the rose 34 DE FLAGELLO MYRTEO Heaped on her by her country's gratitude.
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