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First Line: In the first ruder age, when love was wild
Last Line: Itself for its own proper object melt.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


IN the first ruder age, when Love was wild,
Not yet by laws reclaim'd, not reconcil'd
To order, nor by Reason mann'd, but flew
Full-summ'd by Nature, on the instant view
Upon the wings of Appetite, at all
The eye could fair, or sense delightful call;
Election was not yet: but as their cheap
Food from the oak, or the next acorn-heap,
As water from the nearest spring or brook,
So men their undistinguish'd females took
By chance, not choice. But soon the heavenly spark
That in man's bosom lurk'd broke through this dark
Confusion: then the noblest breast first felt
Itself for its own proper object melt.





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