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"ODE 3"
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fave poems (written by others) Love, unconquerable
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure Immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory.
Surely you swerve upon ruin
The just man's consenting heart, 1
As here you have made bright anger
Strike between father and son —
And none has conquered but Love!
A girl’s glance working the will of heaven:
Pleasure to her alone who mocks us,
Merciless Aphrodite.
