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LOVE A SPIRIT by PHILIP AYRES

First Line: I TOLD JACINTA T'OTHER DAY
Last Line: AND I CAN FEEL HIM ON YOUR LIPS.
Subject(s): LOVE;
I TOLD Jacinta t'other day,
As in a pleasant bow'r we sate,
Sporting and chatting time away,
Of Love, and of I know not what;

That Love's a spirit, some maintain,
From whom (say they) we're seldom free;
He gives us both delight and pain,
Yet him we neither touch, nor see.

But when I view (said I) your eyes,
I can perceive he thither skips,
He now about them hov'ring flies,
And I can feel him on your lips.



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