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HERO
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HERO AND LEANDER.
ON HELLESPONT, GUILTY OF TRUELOVE'S BLOOD,
IN VIEW AND OPPOSITE TWO CITIES STOOD,
SEABORDERERS, DISJOINED BY NEPTUNE'S MIGHT;
THE ONE ABYDOS, THE OTHER SESTOS HIGHT.
AT SESTOS HERO DWELT; HERO THE FAIR,
WHOM YOUNG APOLLO COURTED FOR HER HAIR,
AND OFFERED AS A DOWER HIS BURNING THRONE,
WHERE SHE SHOULD SIT FOR MEN TO GAZE UPON.
THE OUTSIDE OF HER GARMENTS WERE OF LAWN,
THE LINING PURPLE SILK, WITH GILT STARS DRAWN;
HER WIDE SLEEVES GREEN, AND BORDERED WITH A GROVE,
WHERE VENUS IN HER NAKED GLORY STROVE
TO PLEASE THE CARELESS AND DISDAINFUL EYES
OF PROUD ADONIS, THAT BEFORE HER LIES.
HER KIRTLE BLUE, WHEREON WAS MANY A STAIN,
MADE WITH THE BLOOD OF WRETCHED LOVERS SLAIN.
UPON HER HEAD SHE WARE A MYRTLE WREATH,
FROM WHENCE HER VEIL REACHED TO THE GROUND BENEATH.
HER VEIL WAS ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS AND LEAVES
WHOSE WORKMANSHIP BOTH MAN AND BEAST DECEIVES.
MANY WOULD PRAISE THE SWEET SMELL AS SHE PASSED,
WHEN 'TWAS THE ODOR WHICH HER BREATH FORTH CAST;
A . . .
