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Song like a rose should be;
Each rhyme a petal sweet;
For fragrance, melody,
That when her lips repeat
The words, her heart may know
What secret makes them so:—
Love, only Love!

— Frank Dempster Sherman

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And in the evening, everywhere
Along the roadside, up and down,
I see the golden torches flare
Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

For him delicious flavors dwell
In books as in old Muscatel.

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