Rubens

Here you are, grand old sensualist!

And here are the three goddesses

    displaying their charms to Paris.

It was all one to you &mdash goddesses, saints, court ladies &mdash

Your world was all curves of flesh

    rolling curves repeated like a shell.

Mary Magdalen was almost as good copy as Venus,

Angels might be voluptuous as nymphs.

It was a rich old gorgeous world you painted &mdash

For kinds or prelates, what mattered! &mdash palace or church!

You had a wonderful, glorious time! &mdash

And no doubt the ladies loved you.