THE ALBANIAN LOVE-LETTER. 



BY LEIGH HUNT. 



An exquisite invention this, 



Worthy of Love's most honied kiss, 



This art of writing billet-doux 



In buds, and odors, and bright hues, 



In saying all one feels and thinks, 



In clever daffodils and pinks, 



Uttering (as well as silence may) 



The sweetest words the sweetest way : 



How fit, too, for the lady's bosom, 



The place where billet-doux repose 'em. 



How charming in some rural spot, 

 Combining love with garden plot, 

 At once to cultivate one's flowers 

 And one's epistolary powers, 

 Growing one's own choice words and fancies 

 In orange tubs and beds of pansies ; 

 One's sighs and passionate declarations 

 In odorous rhet'ric of carnations ; 



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