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LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG FOR A GIRL by JOHN DRYDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOUNG I AM, AND YET UNSKILL'D
Last Line: I SHOU'D LONG TO BE FIFTEEN.
Subject(s): LOVE; SINGING & SINGERS; YOUTH; SONGS;

1

YOUNG I am, and yet unskill'd
How to make a Lover yield:
How to keep, or how to gain,
When to love; and when to feign.

2

Take me, take me, some of you,
While I yet am Young and True;
E're I can my Soul disguise;
Heave my Breasts, and roul my Eyes.

3

Stay not till I learn the way,
How to Lye, and to Betray;
He that has me first, is blest,
For I may deceive the rest.

4

Cou'd I find a blooming Youth,
Full of Love, and full of Truth,
Brisk, and of a janty mean
I shou'd long to be Fifteen.



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