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LIKING AND LOVING.
Liking is a little boy
Dreaming of a sea employ,
Sitting by the stream, with joy
Paper frigates sailing;
Love's an earnest-hearted man,
Champion of Beauty's clan,
Fighting bravely in the van,
Pushing and prevailing.
Dreaming of a sea employ,
Sitting by the stream, with joy
Paper frigates sailing;
Love's an earnest-hearted man,
Champion of Beauty's clan,
Fighting bravely in the van,
Pushing and prevailing.
Liking hovers round and round,
Capers with a nimble bound,
Plants light foot on easy ground,
Through the glass to view it;
Love shoots sudden glance for glance,
Spurs the steed and rests the lance,
With a brisk and bold advance,
Sworn to die or do it.
Capers with a nimble bound,
Plants light foot on easy ground,
Through the glass to view it;
Love shoots sudden glance for glance,
Spurs the steed and rests the lance,
With a brisk and bold advance,
Sworn to die or do it.
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Liking's ever on the wing,
From new blooms new sweets to bring,
Nibbling aye, the nimble thing
From the hook is free still;
Love's a tar of British blue,
Let mad winds their maddest do,
To his haven carded true,
As I am to Thee still.
From new blooms new sweets to bring,
Nibbling aye, the nimble thing
From the hook is free still;
Love's a tar of British blue,
Let mad winds their maddest do,
To his haven carded true,
As I am to Thee still.
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