Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;
For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;
Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.
John Dryden