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Title: Every life a delight
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Potts, James Henry, 1848-1942
Subjects: Conduct of life
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ss. They seem toconsider it a very fit subject for fanciful remark. Thus Moore: I never give a kiss, says Prue, To naughty man, for I abhor it. She will not give a kiss, t is true, She 11 take one, though, and thank you for it. Coventry Patmore could see only sly thoughts in kissing: I saw him kiss your cheek! T is true.O modesty!— T was strictly kept:He thought me asleep; at least I knewHe thought I thought he thought I slept. A more open expression is given by our own American,Sidney Lanier, in his Evening Song: Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea:How long they kiss in sight of all the lands!Ah! longer, longer we. Now in the seas red vintage melts the sun,As Egypts pearls dissolved in rosy wine,And Cleopatras night drinks all. T is done.Love, lay thine hand in mine. Come forth, sweet stars, and comfort heavens heart,Glimmer, ye waves, round else unlighted sands.O Night, divorce our sun and sky apart,—Never our lips, our hands. 213
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CUPIDS TOY CUPID Even a myth has a birth, and Cupid is no exception. Hewas born at Rome, date unknown. Venus was his mother, and Mythology his father. He wasreared in a bad atmosphere, and was not always a good child. Among his vices was that of gambling, and, according toJohn Lyly, of England, an authority 360 years ago, stakedeverything, even his eyes, on a game of cards with Campaspe,and lost. At last he set her both his eyes:She won, and Cupid blind did rise. 214 The Tender Affections After this calamity the little fellow made many mistakes.How could it be otherwise? The world was dark to him. Once, according to Thomas Moore, while reclining upon abed of roses, he chanced upon a bee. The bee awaked—with anger wild—The bee awaked and stung the child. The poor little fellow suffered much, and ran to his motherfor soothing. She said, My infant, if so muchThou feel the little wild bees touch,How must the heart, ah, Cupid! be,The hapless heart that s stung by thee! Cupid, like the

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