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Poetical Trifles

By A Youth [i.e. Robert Montgomery]

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BAGATELLE.

“Carpe diem.”
—Hor.

Wise Solomon once said, each hour has its bliss:
I think I remember it—sweet maid, do not you?
Then pretty coy Phyllis come give me one kiss,
And I vow I'll believe this sage oracle true.