All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean —
In scorn of which we sailed to find her
In distant regions likeliest to hold her
Whom we desired above all things to know,
Sister of the mirage and echo.
--
"The White Goddess," lines 1–6, from Poems and Satires (1951)Robert Graves
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