Love
On a Portrait
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Dauber! if thou shouldst ever stray
Along Idalia's mossy way,
Heedless what deities are there,
And whom they view with fondest care,
At thee for this shall Venus pout,
And all three Graces push thee out.
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