. Fire and air . O laughter loves to wake a smile, And kisses woo embraces,And love-light hours the night beguile, And joy wild fancy chases;And love wooes beauty all the while, And you complete the Graces. & — To Edward Sickle CARELESS whistling lad am I,On skylark wings my fancies fly;Theres not a fowler more renownedAll the wide huntsmans world around! Ah! who like me can spread the net,Or tune the merry flageolet?Then why, O why should I repine,When all the roving birds are mine? The thrush and linnet in the vale,The sweet sequestered nightingale,The wren and robin, woodlark, allObey the m
. Fire and air . O laughter loves to wake a smile, And kisses woo embraces,And love-light hours the night beguile, And joy wild fancy chases;And love wooes beauty all the while, And you complete the Graces. & — To Edward Sickle CARELESS whistling lad am I,On skylark wings my fancies fly;Theres not a fowler more renownedAll the wide huntsmans world around! Ah! who like me can spread the net,Or tune the merry flageolet?Then why, O why should I repine,When all the roving birds are mine? The thrush and linnet in the vale,The sweet sequestered nightingale,The wren and robin, woodlark, allObey the magic of my call. O! could I lay some cunning snareTo catch the coy coquetting fairIn Cupids filmy web so fine!The pretty girls would all be mine! When all were mine, the loveliestId choose to share my downy mate should sing of love and joy,And coo and bill her robin boy. Wed fly away to some fair climeAnd make one honeymoon of time,And love away this fleeting lifeLike robin red-breast and his ^Sittltf ($l|itrtn^r ^f*OME and kiss me, little charmer,\J> Thinks my lass a kiss would harm her?Kisses given, kisses taken Need not now your fears me then a hundred kisses; Count them but as borrowed blisses:On my life, I tell thee truly, Tenfold Ill repay thee dulyWhen to snatch a kiss is bolder And my maid is ten years older.+
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