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Who has not seen that feeling born of flame
Crimson the cheek at mention of a name?
The rapturous touch of some divine surprise
Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes:
When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed,
And the heart’s secret was at once confessed?

— Abraham Coles Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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