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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

    The cyclops Polyphemous to his beloved, Galatea:

        Abundant hair hangs over my fierce face
        and shoulders, shading me, just like a grove;
        but don't think me unsightly just because
        I am completely covered in dense bristles:
        unsightly is the tree that has no leaves,
        the horse without a mane; birds have their plumage
        and sheep are most attractive in their wool,
        so facial hair and a full body beard
        are really most becoming in a man.

    Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XIII (trans. Charles Martin)