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O Venus, sweet mistress of the gods,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Daughter of summer sky and ocean spray,<\/span>
\n<\/span>To you I pray. <\/span><\/p>\n

To you I turn<\/span>
\n<\/span>As you step out of the sea unto the beach at dawn.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Let me lie next to you in the warm sand<\/span>
\n<\/span>Under the rising sun<\/span>
\n<\/span>And stroke your flesh. <\/span><\/p>\n

Redeem me from sterile white deserts of prophets<\/span>
\n<\/span>Garbed in white tunics who ramble on day and night in white voices:<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThus says the Lord! Thus says the Lord!\u201d.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Redeem me from rabbis with long black beards,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Dressed in long black coats and black skullcaps,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Holding their black books and scrolls inscribed in black ink<\/span>
\n<\/span>With long lists of black prohibitions.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Sweet Venus of the sleek blonde hair and hazel eyes,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Grant me Tuscany green and Mediterranean blue.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Lift me out of Jewish autumn and gray twilight; let me bask<\/span>
\n<\/span>In your unending June sun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why do they call me Jacob? I am Julianus;<\/span>
\n<\/span>Why do they call me Isaac? I am Hadrianus;<\/span>
\n<\/span>Why do they call me Abraham? I am Aurelius.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Venus, make my hooked nose straight,<\/span>
\n<\/span>My curly dark hair make yellow and smooth,<\/span>
\n<\/span>My clouded brown eyes bluer and clearer than your seas.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Cancel this incision of circumcision<\/span>
\n<\/span>Maiming my maleness, deforming my manhood.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Make my body more muscular and younger than Adonis;<\/span>
\n<\/span>Let me show Cupid<\/span>
\n<\/span>I am a full man. <\/span><\/p>\n

Do not recite the psalms of David, chant me Ovid\u2019s words;<\/span>
\n<\/span>Do not repeat the laws of Moses, sing me Virgil\u2019s verse.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

My lady Venus, your sisters Minerva and Diana<\/span>
\n<\/span>Are winking their eyes and flirting with me.<\/span>
\n<\/span>My lady Venus, your brothers Mars and Vulcan<\/span>
\n<\/span>Are calling out to me, to seize the spear,<\/span>
\n<\/span>To raise the sword, to bend the bow,<\/span>
\n<\/span>To join their games of war and love. <\/span><\/p>\n

My mistress Venus, queen of Rome,<\/span>
\n<\/span>I sacrifice on your altar wild boars.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Let us spice our mead with the blood of young sows<\/span>
\n<\/span>And feast on pork and cheese. <\/span><\/p>\n

Daughter of summer sky and ocean spray,<\/span>
\n<\/span>To you I lift four goblets of wine and swear:<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cNext year in Rome!<\/span>
\n<\/span>Next year in Rome!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If I forget you,<\/span>
\n<\/span>May my right hand lose its cunning,<\/span>
\n<\/span>May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth<\/span>
\n<\/span>If I do not set you,<\/span>
\n<\/span>O Venus,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Above my chiefest joy.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/em>
\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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