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...translated from the Portuguese, but the fair translator's own nature is unmistakably revealed: — " First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I writ«, And ever since it grew more clear mid white. Slow to world-greetings, quick with its 'Oh list'.'...

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...sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. xxxvn. XXX VII I. FIRST time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...write ; And ever since, it grew more clean and white, Blow to world-greetings, quick with its ' Oh, list,' When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could...

...'m thinking or reading. I hold Mrs. Browning's Poems in my hand, and I open to this passage: — " A ring of amethyst I could not wear here plainer to my sight Than that first kiss." I read the beautiful lines about the second and the third kiss. • I mark them with a lead-pencil,...

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...dcqth, darling, naught until death ! " Clamice KISSES AND KISSING. First time he kissed me, but he only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write : And ever since it grew more clear and white, Slow to the world-greeting, quick with its " O list," When the angels speak. The second...

...this hand wherewith I write, And,ever since, it grew more clean and white, Plow to world greetings . . quick with its 'Oh, list,' When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I conld not wear here, plainer to my sight Than that first kiss. The second passed in height The first,...

...commemorate. Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort, And vibrant tail, within the templegate. FIRST time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...since it grew more clean and white, . . . Slow to world -greetings . . quick with its ' Oh, list,' When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could...