“The rosy-fingered morn with gladsome ray
Rose to her task from old Tithonus' lap.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) English translator
Book XV, stanza 1
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
“Asleep in lap of legends old.”
Stanza 15
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
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