TO MRS,—-.
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ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSLATION OF VOITURE'S KISS.
Mon ame sur mon lèvre étoit lors toute entière. Pour savourer le miel qui sur la votre étoit; Mais en me retirant, elle resta derrière, Tant de ce doux plaisir l'amorce l'a restoit. VOITURE.
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, sure his soul returned to feel That it again could ravished be; For in the kiss that thou didst steal, His life and soul have fled to thee.