I say, Don't trust those men with better,
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The pies browned, the pastries puckered
in the cavernous oven I waited to open.
The uncles ate seconds and rose in a chorus
...empty plates glowed like the eyes of the spellbound.
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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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