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LXXIV.
DESIRE AND FRUITION.
Three children play'd beneath a spreading tree,In an old garden,—a secluded clime,
With orange laden, citron and the lime:—
Two were twin-children, and the first who came
Men called Desire; the second bore Love's name;
The third, Enjoyment,—sweetest of the three!
How strove the twins then for his young embrace,
With panting heart, wild eye and eager face;
But, delicate by nature, in the strife,
O'erpow'r'd, the child soon rendered up his life!
Then fell the two that once had loved, apart,
And knew no more each other;—then a gloom,
Settled upon the garden, while each heart
Grew cold, and Joy's first birth-place was his tomb.
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