Читать книгу The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 - Various - Страница 4
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ОглавлениеWRITTEN UNDER A PORTRAIT OF JUPITER AND DANAE
Fair maid of Argos! dry thy tears, nor shun
The bright embrace of Saturn’s amorous son.
Pour’d from high Heaven athwart thy brazen tower,
Jove bends propitious in a glittering shower:
Take, gladly take, the boon the Fates impart;
Press the gilt treasure to thy panting heart:
And to thy venal sex this truth unfold,
How few, like Danae, grasp both god and gold.
J. Smith.