Vulcan : Roman God of fire, particularly in its destructive aspects as volcanoes or conflagrations. Poetically he is given all the attributes of the Greek Hephaestus (q.v.).
... mysteries Are alien to your grasp, until Love pen His novel lithograph and write in you Songs bubbling with the music of a name. Oh, I am faster tangled in his eyes Than, in the net smoke-blasted Vulcan threw, Foam-bosomed Cytherea to her Mars. GUENDOLEN But will he push his fancy to your bent? ALACIEL How else? for in the coy glance of a girl A subtle sorcery lies that draws men on ...
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