Classic Poem

When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat,
To form some beauty by a new receipt;
Jove sent and found far in a country scene,
Truth, innocence, good nature, look serene:
From which ingredients, first the dexterous boy
Picked the demure, the awkward, and the coy:
The Graces from the court did next provide
Breeding, and wit, and air, and decent pride.
These Venus cleansed from every spurious grain
Of nice, coquette, affected, pert and vain.
Jove mixed up all, and his best clay employed;
Then called the happy composition Floyd.