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<h2> V </h2>
<p>Do not, beloved, regret that you yielded to me so quickly:<br/>
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I entertain no base, insolent thoughts about you.<br/>
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Arrows of Cupid work divers effects. Some do but scratch us:<br/>
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Slow and insidious these poison our hearts over years.<br/>
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Yet with a head freshly honed and cunningly fledged, certain others<br/>
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Pierce to the marrow, inflame rapidly there our blood.<br/>
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When gods and goddesses in days of heroes made love, then<br/>
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Lust followed look and desire, with no delay, was indulged.<br/>
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Surely you don't think the goddess of love lost a moment reflecting<br/>
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When, in Idean grove, Anchises caught her eye.<br/>
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Nor did Luna delay about kissing that beautiful dreamer—<br/>
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Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.<br/>
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At the loud banquet Hero regarded Leander—then promptly<br/>
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Into dark waters he plunged, ardently swam toward his love.<br/>
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When Rhea Silvia, princess and virgin, came down to the Tiber<br/>
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Just to fetch water, a god seized her and that is the way<br/>
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Mars begat himself sons, a pair of twins whom a she wolf<br/>
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Suckled. Today a proud Rome claims to be queen of the world.<br/></p>
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