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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 49 — JANUARY AND MAY:

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Chaucer only says that they whispered through the crevice they discovered in the wall which divided the houses of their parents. All their kisses were bestowed upon the wall itself, or as Sandys puts it in his translation of Ovid,

Their kisses greet The senseless stones, with lips that could not meet.

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