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SENEX'S SOLILOQUY ON HIS YOUTHFUL IDOL by THOMAS CAMPBELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP, AT YOUR YEARS
Last Line: AND TRY TO BE PLATONIC.
Subject(s): FRIENDSHIP;
PLATONIC friendship at your years,
Says Conscience, should content ye;
Nay, name not fondness to her ears,
The darling's scarcely twenty.

Yes, and she ll loathe me unforgiven,
To dote thus out of season;
But beauty is a beam from heaven,
That dazzles blind our reason.

I'll challenge Plato from the skies,
Yes, from his spheres harmonic,
To look in M -- y C----'s eyes,
And try to be Platonic.



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