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15.
"Then follows Paris and full time
For both to reason: 'Thus with us!'
She'll sigh, 'Thus girls give body and soul
At first word, think they gain the goal,
When 'tis the starting-place they climb!
"Then follows Paris and full time
For both to reason: 'Thus with us!'
She'll sigh, 'Thus girls give body and soul
At first word, think they gain the goal,
When 'tis the starting-place they climb!
16.
"'My friend makes verse and gets renown;
Have they all fifty years, his peers?
He knows the world, firm, quiet and gay;
Boys will become as much one day:
They're fools; he cheats, with beard less brown.
"'My friend makes verse and gets renown;
Have they all fifty years, his peers?
He knows the world, firm, quiet and gay;
Boys will become as much one day:
They're fools; he cheats, with beard less brown.
17.
"'For boys say, Love one or I die!
He did not say, The truth is, youth
I want, who am old and know too much;
I'd catch youth: lend one sight and touch!
Drop heart's blood where life's wheels grate dry!
"'For boys say, Love one or I die!
He did not say, The truth is, youth
I want, who am old and know too much;
I'd catch youth: lend one sight and touch!
Drop heart's blood where life's wheels grate dry!
18.
"While I should make rejoinder"—(then
It was, no doubt, you ceased that least
Light pressure of my arm in yours)
"'I can conceive of cheaper cures
For a yawning-fit o'er books and men.
"While I should make rejoinder"—(then
It was, no doubt, you ceased that least
Light pressure of my arm in yours)
"'I can conceive of cheaper cures
For a yawning-fit o'er books and men.
