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13. Let us love temperately ; things violent last not ; 

 And too much dotage rather argues folly 



Than true affection. 



Malinger. 



14. Loving with all the wild devotion, 

 That deep and passionate emotion ; 

 Loving with all the snow-white truth 

 That is found but in early youth ; 

 Freshness of feeling, as of flower, 



That lives not more than spring's first hour. 

 Miss London, 



15. Be her my choice, who knows with perfect skill, 

 When she should move, and when she should stand 



still; 



Who, uninstructed, can perform her share, 

 And kindly half the pleasing burden bear. 



Soame Jenym. 



16. Ours, too, the glance none saw beside ; 



The smile none else might understand ; 

 The whispered thought of hearts allied ; 

 The pressure of the thrilling hand. 



Byron. 



17. Friendship ! thou soft, propitious power ! 

 Sweet regent of the social hour ! 

 Sublime the joys, nor understood, 



But by the virtuous and the good. 



Cotton. 



18. As love can exquisitely bless, 



Love only feels the marvellous of pain ; 

 Opens new views of torture in the soul, 

 And wakes the nerve where agonies are born. 



Smollett. 



19. Eternal youth 



O'er all her form its glowing honors breathed, 

 And smiles eternal from her candid eyes 

 Flowed like the dewy lustre of the morn, 

 Effusive trembling on the placid waves. 



Aktntuk. 



JO. Often, like the evening sun, comes the memory of 

 former times o'er my soul. 



Ostian. 



