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THREE SCORE AND TEN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: TEN JUNES TO HEAR THE NIGHTINGALE
Last Line: IN TEN YEARS' RECKONING UP, MY DEAR!
Subject(s): KISSES; LOVE; WEDDING SONG; EPITHALAMIUM;

Ten Junes to hear the Nightingale,
Ten Aprils for the Cuckoo's coming;
And only ten more Februarys, Love,
To celebrate our wedding.
Come, happier thoughts, and cry 'Good Morrow'!
Though we but kiss three times a day,
Three hundred days and sixty five,
In every year, must come our way!
Think how these kisses too will make
One thousand and ninety-five a year!
And all the thousands that must follow
In ten years' reckoning up, my Dear!



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