XXXIII.
The Medicean Venus.
Woman divine ! fair child of Grecian seas,
Whose sunny billows gird the Cyclades ;
Within all modest, wanting outward dress,
Thou fillest this new time with loveliness,
And seem’st, with head half-turned and earnest soul,
To hear afar thy natal waters roll.
Young joy of human hearts ! the earth to me
Is fairer now, because containing thee.