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THE THREE GRAY SISTERS.

No filthy Harpies need she send,

No Furies need she call to aid;

But misdirected love is made

To work its ruin to the hateful end.

Deep is the plot the goddess laid, -

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Simple, yet deep, the goddess' plan.

For Aphrodite knows men's hearts,

Their inmost secrets she can read,

No key the Queen of Love doth need

To penetrate the soul's most hidden parts;

And cruelly she makes to bleed

The hearts of mortals whom she hates.

O cruel gods of lust and hate, -

Reputed happy, - armed with power

To make poor men beneath you cower

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