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"And moonèd Ashtaroth, Heavâns Queen and Mother both, Now sits not girt with Tapers holy shine,"
"[...] With these in troop Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians callâd Astarte, Queen of Heavân, with crescent Horns; To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon Sidonian Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her Temple on thâ offensive Mountain, built By that uxorious King, whose heart though large, Beguilâd by fair Idolatresses, fell To Idols foul. [...]"
"We bid those spectre-shapes avaunt, Ashtaroth and Termagaunt!"
"And now, as the night was senescent And star-dials pointed to mornâ As the star-dials hinted of mornâ At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate hornâ Astarteâs bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn."
"Where are they, Cotytto or Venus, Astarte or Ashtaroth, where? Do their hands as we touch come between us? Is the breath of them hot in thy hair? From their lips have thy lips taken fever, With the blood of their bodies grown red? Hast thou left upon earth a believer If these men are dead?"
"Or that young god, the Tyrian, who was more amorous than the dove Of Ashtaroth?"
"When in a Syrian treasure-house she pours, From caskets rich and amethystine urns, Dull fires of dusty jewels that have bound The brows of naked Ashtaroth around."