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THE THREE GRAY SISTERS.

One only of the immortals blest,

The goddess Aphrodite seemed

Unhappy, and she sat and schemed,

Scowling, apart from all the joyful rest.

Why was it that fierce anger gleamed

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In the soft eyes of beauty's queen?

As in a palace spiders spin

Their dust-collecting webs, and grow

Monstrous on luckless flies, e'en so

Did Jealousy dwell spiderlike within

The goddess' breast, and feed with slow,

Unpitying ravage on her mind.

Pephredo had she seen on earth, -

The fairest of the daughters three

Of Phorkos, "Old Man of the Sea," -

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