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EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 10. BLIND LOVE by PHILIP AYRES

First Line: LOVE IS THAT CHILDISH PLAY CALL'D BLIND-MAN'S BLUFF
Last Line: WHEN'S LITTLE BRAINS ARE DASHED AGAINST A POST.
Subject(s): GAMES; LOVE - NATURE OF; RECREATION; PASTIMES; AMUSEMENTS;

LOVE is that childish play call'd Blind-man's buff.
The fond youth gropes about till he is lost,
Too late convinced of Reason's wise reproof
When's little brains are dashed against a post.



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