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The fanning wind upon her bosom blows,
To meet the fanning wind the bosom rose;
The fanning wind, and purling streams, continue her repose.

— John Dryden

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Source: after Boccaccio, "Cymon and Iphigenia", in Fables Ancient and Modern (1700)
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