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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - KissesSamuel Taylor Coleridge - Kisses
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Cupid, if storying legends tell aright, Once framed a rich elixer of delight. A chalice o`er love-kindled flames he fixed, And in it nectar and ambrosia mixed: With these the magic dews which evening brings, Brushed from the Idalian star by fairy wings: Each tender pledge of sacred faith he joined, Each gentler pleasure of th` unspotted mind-- Day-dreams, whose tints with sportive brightness glow, And hope, the blameless parasite of woe. The eyeless chemist heard the process rise, The steamy chalice bubbled up in sighs; Sweet sounds transpired as when the enamoured dove Pours the soft murmuring of responsive love. The finished work might envy vainly blame, And `kisses` was the precious compound`s name. With half, the god his Cyprian mother blest, And breathed on Sara`s lovelier lips the rest.
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