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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/A Short Hymn to Venus

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337. A SHORT HYMN TO VENUS.

Goddess, I do love a girl,
Ruby-lipp'd and tooth'd with pearl;
If so be I may but prove
Lucky in this maid I love,
I will promise there shall be
Myrtles offer'd up to thee.