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On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune's might;The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. At Sestos Hero dwelt… Meer...

On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune's might;The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair, And offered as a dower his burning throne, Where she should sit for men to gaze upon. The outside of her garments were of lawn, The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn;Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune's might;The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair, And offered as a dower his burning throne, Where she should sit for men to gaze upon. The outside of her garments were of lawn, The lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn;Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory stroveTo please the careless and disdainful eyesOf proud Adonis, that before her lies. EBooks, Books~~Fiction~~General, Hero-and-Leander~~Christopher-Marlowe, , , , , , , , , , Magic Fairy Tales<