Love
I Rais'd My Eyes to Pallas, and She Laught
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
I rais'd my eyes to Pallas, and she laught.
" Goddess! " said I, " pray tell me why? "
" Look at my olive with a sloe ingraft!
Where stood your Pericles, five scoundrels set ye
(O father Zeus!) on Otho and Coletti."
Then said she, and her scornful voice grew meek,
"Return thou homeward and forget thou Greek,"
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