Show THE NEW APHRODITE Out of the deep sea stream Into the light and the air Rose like a gracious dream Venus the fair How much of sorrow and rue How much of joy and peace Sprang that day trom the blue Waters of Greece I Oh from a Cyclads verge Or swift galleys prow to have seen Her the worlds wonder emerge Veiled In the sheen Of her glorious seadripping locks Buoyant of limb andms bright As the sole star that leads out the flocks Of the shepherdess Night But what Avails It to sigh For a glimpse of that day withdrawn Not for long In the sky Stays the fair dawn Ours the nobler lot I Under the broad noontide L Gazing to falter not i Till from the wide i Ocean of life we behold Rising In splendor and might Fairer than Venus of old Calmer than night Purer than dawn or the blue Depths of ether untrod Nature the only the true Daughter of God W P Trent In the Dial |