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Seek'st thou on earth the life of Gods to share,

Safe in the Realm of Death?—beware

To pluck the fruits that glitter to thine eye;

Content thyself with gazing on their glow—

Short are the joys Possession can bestow,

And in Possession sweet Desire will die.

'Twas not the ninefold chain of waves that bound

Thy daughter, Ceres, to the Stygian river—

She pluck'd the fruit of the unholy ground,

And so—was Hell's forever!