They have never served as the mirror of a human form....

Venus comes, from the sea to take possession of the world, as a goddess who loves men should--quite naked and quite alone.
Earth is more to her liking than is Olympus, and amongst her lovers she has more men than gods.

She drapes herself in no faint veils of mystery.
She stands straight upright, her dolphin behind her, and her foot upon her opal-coloured shell.

The sun strikes full upon her smooth limbs, and her white hand holds in air the waves of her fair locks, which old father Ocean has sprinkled with his most perfect pearls.

One can see her.