A BODY OF WORK

Pygmalion's Prize

“Now in the while by wondrous art an image he did grave

Of such proportion, shape and grace as nature never gave

Nor can to any woman give. In this work he took

A certain love. The look of it was right a maidens’s look,

And such a one that ye would believe had life and that

Would movèd be, if womanhood and reverence letted not.

So artificial was the work. He wond’reth at his art

And of his counterfeited corse conceiveth love in heart.”

From Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The tenth book, The Story of Pygmalion

Translated by Arthur Golden

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