Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 1-66

LXVI.

When Paphos fell by Time - accursed Time!
The Queen who conquers all must yield to thee -
The Pleasures fled, but sought as warm a clime;
And Venus, constant to her native sea,
To nought else constant, hither deigned to flee,
And fixed her shrine within these walls of white;
Though not to one dome circumscribeth she
Her worship, but, devoted to her rite,
A thousand altars rise, for ever blazing bright.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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