Parerga/Ovid's Description of a Frightened Beauty

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OVID'S DESCRIPTION OF A FRIGHTENED BEAUTY.

Exanimes artus et membra trementia vidi,Ut cùm populeas ventilat aura comas;Ut leni Zephyro gracilis vibratur arundo,Summave cùm tepido stringitur unda Noto.Amor. Lib. I. El. vii. 53.
I saw her pale, her beauteous limbs all trembling;So poplar leaves, fann'd by soft breezes, quiver;The shiverings of the slender reed resembling,Or the light crispings of the wind-swept river.
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