“Blest pair! if aught my verse avail,
No day shall make your memory fail
From off the heart of time.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 324
“Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy”
At a Solemn Music (c. 1637), line 1
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