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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

Chloe Divine

Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723)

CHLOE ’S a Nymph in flowery groves,

A Nereid in the streams;

Saint-like she in the temple moves,

A woman in my dreams.

Love steals artillery from her eyes,

The Graces point her charms;

Orpheus is rivalled in her voice,

And Venus in her arms.

Never so happily in one

Did heaven and earth combine;

And yet ’tis flesh and blood alone

That makes her so divine.