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Safe from access <strong>of</strong> each intruding<br />

power.<br />

Touch'd with her secret key, the<br />

doors unfold:<br />

Self-closed, behind her shut the<br />

valves <strong>of</strong> gold.<br />

Here first she bathes; and round her<br />

body pours<br />

S<strong>of</strong>t oils <strong>of</strong> fragrance, and ambrosial<br />

showers:<br />

<strong>The</strong> winds, perfumed, the balmy<br />

gale convey<br />

Through heaven, through earth, and<br />

all the aerial way:<br />

Spirit divine! whose exhalation<br />

greets<br />

<strong>The</strong> sense <strong>of</strong> gods with more than<br />

mortal sweets.<br />

Thus while she breathed <strong>of</strong> heaven,<br />

with decent pride<br />

Her artful hands the radiant tresses<br />

tied;

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