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<strong>The</strong> golden goblet crowns with<br />

purple wine:<br />

While the full bowls flow round,<br />

the powers employ<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir careful eyes on long-contended<br />

Troy.<br />

When Jove, disposed to tempt<br />

Saturnia's spleen,<br />

Thus waked the fury <strong>of</strong> his partial<br />

queen,<br />

"Two powers divine the son <strong>of</strong><br />

Atreus aid,<br />

Imperial Juno, and the martial<br />

maid; 125<br />

But high in heaven they sit, and<br />

gaze from far,<br />

<strong>The</strong> tame spectators <strong>of</strong> his deeds <strong>of</strong><br />

war.<br />

Not thus fair Venus helps her favour'd<br />

knight,<br />

<strong>The</strong> queen <strong>of</strong> pleasures shares the<br />

toils <strong>of</strong> fight,

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