Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics
by Denis Florence MacCarthy


TRUTH.

FROM MILLEVOYE.
Down from the skies an unknown virgin came,
Timid and chaste, though fair as if the zone
Of Venus bound her:--Truth was her sweet name.
All men pursued this beautiful unknown,
And some had almost seized upon her charms;
But short the triumph of the amorous crowd;
This second Juno vanished from their arms,
And left these new Ixions but--a cloud!

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MacCarthy, Denis Florence (1817-1882).  Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics, Original and Translated Dublin:  James McGlashan, 1850.

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