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 But now at length she made them serve her wine In the most precious goblet,—wine that shed Great fragrance, in a goblet fair with shine Of jewels: so they poured the wine out red:

And lo, to mark that more than any feast And honour Antony,—or for mere pride To do so proud a vanity, at least The proudest, vainest, woman ever tried—

She took the unmatched pearl, and, taking, laughed; And when they served her now that wine of worth She cast it gleaming in; then with the draught Mingling she drank it in their midst with mirth.

And all that while upon the ocean high, The golden galley, heavy in its light, Ruled the hoarse sea-sounds with its revelry— Changing afar the purples of the night!