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LOVE AND POETRY; A FABLE by JOHN GODFREY SAXE

First Line: TO PSYCHE, WHEN HER MAIDEN HEART
Last Line: LOVE IS THE SOUL OF POESY!
Subject(s): LOVE; POETRY & POETS;
I.

To Psyche, when her maiden heart
Was fancy-free, the Muses went
To teach her the poetic art;
But all in vain their kind intent;
She answered, she did not desire
To meddle with poetic fire!

II.

But Cupid came, and won the maid
(Psyche -- "the soul" of all things good);
Her husband's teaching she obeyed,
And caught from him the lyric mood;
And ever since -- as all agree --
Love is the soul of Poesy!



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