The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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SONG, ON A KISS.
Humid seal of soft affections!Tenderest pledge of future bliss!
Dearest tie of young connexions!
Love's first snow-drop, Virgin Kiss!
Speaking silence! dumb confession!
Passion's birth and infant play!
Dove-like fondness, chaste concession,
Glowing dawn of brighter day!
Sorrowing joy! Adieu's last action,
When lingering lips no more must join!
What words can ever speak affection
So thrilling, so sincere as thine?
Thee the fond youth, untaught and simple,
Nor on the naked breast can find,
Nor yet within the cheek's small dimple!
Sole offspring Thou of lips conjoin'd!
Then haste thee to thy dewy mansion;
With Hebe spend thy laughing day!
Dwell in her rubied lip's expansion!
Bask in her eye's propitious ray!
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