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Rh VERSIFICATION.

Add te Pyschéd' nekem, 'Eros, oh add ! 's vedd lantomat érte.

" me thy Psyche, young Eros! O give, and my lute will I give thee—

Doubled thy influence, Mighty One! doubled thy transports shall be."

I, for thy lute, give my Psyche, Apollo? My lute is mine arrow:

Said—and straight heaven-ward the magical arrow up flew;

Full on hexameters rush'd the arrow's loud whizzing ascension,

And as it whispering fell a pentameter woke. Rh