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On A Bath, By Plato

by William Cowper

William Cowper

Did Cytherea to the skies
From this pellucid lymph arise?
Or was it Cytherea's touch,
When bathing here, that made it such?




Quotes of the Day

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero


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