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A KISS.
A kiss can awake the dead,And snap the iron of Fate,
And lift the Universe-weight,
And change the colour of hate,
And raise or sbatter a state,
And give to a lone bird a mate,
To a world, to an era, a date;
The worth of a kiss men rate
By lips off which it is shed.
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