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While Venus fills the heart, (without heart really

Love, though good always, is not quite so good,)

Ceres presents a plate of vermicelli,—

For Love must be sustained like flesh and blood,—While

Bacchus pours out wine, or hands a jelly:

Eggs, oysters, too, are amatory food;BV

But who is their purveyor from above

Heaven knows,—it may be Neptune, Pan, or Jove.