The Vigil of Venus

Excerpt from The Vigil of Venus: And Other Poems The glorifying juice That wise men use And only fools refuse 'twill teach thee tolerate All rubs of human fate, which to mitigate are lent the Vine, Muse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.