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TO MRS. --, ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSLATION OF VOITURE'S KISS by THOMAS MOORE

First Line: HOW HEAVENLY WAS THE POET'S DOOM
Last Line: HIS LIFE AND SOUL HAVE FLED TO THEE!
Subject(s): TRANSLATING & INTERPRETING;
How heavenly was the poet's doom
To breathe his spirit through a kiss;
And lose within so sweet a tomb
The trembling messenger of bliss!

And, ah! his soul return'd to feel
That it @3again@1 could ravish'd be;
For in the kiss that thou didst steal,
His life and soul have fled to thee!



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