The Priest of Venus

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Excerpt from The Priest of Venus: A Poem in Three Cantos The Priest of Venus Canto First. I. Bay of Piroeus! What a lovely sight The broad blue surface of thy waters show, Reflecting from their bosom, sparkling bright, The blazing wreath'd Apollo's radiant glow, Who, as his coursers mount to mid-heaven slow, Pours down the golden day, in gorgeous beam. Upon the blooming earth outspread below, Whilst all the distant waving tree-tops seem Like to the bowers of the Elysian fields to gleam. II. Still and unmoved thy tranquil waters rest, (Calm as a new-born infants peaceful sleep. When slumb'ing at the smiling mother's breast, ) No rippling breezes o'er them murmuring creep, No raging tempests in their fury sweep, And dash the billows with tremendous wrath Until they roll fierce waves on ocean deep, And threaten e'en with rage increased, to scathe The azure dome remote, where lies Apollo's path. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.