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FRANCIS KAZINCZI.
65

VERSIFICATION.

Add te Pyschéd' nekem, 'Eros, oh add ! 's vedd lantomat érte.



"Give me thy Psyche, young Eros! O give, and my lute will I give thee—
Doubled thy influence, Mighty One! doubled thy transports shall be."
I, for thy lute, give my Psyche, Apollo? My lute is mine arrow:
Said—and straight heaven-ward the magical arrow up flew;
Full on hexameters rush'd the arrow's loud whizzing ascension,

And as it whispering fell a pentameter woke.

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