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Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
The smile of her I love is like the dawn
Whose touch makes Menmon sing:
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The smile of her I love is like the dawn
Whose touch makes Menmon sing:
O see where wide the golden sunlight flows--
The barren desert blossoms as the rose!
I feel in every smile a chain.
I feel in every smile a chain.
From thy own smile I snatched the snake.
From thy own smile I snatched the snake.
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit
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Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit
That could be moved to smile at anything.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Nobly he yokes
A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh
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Nobly he yokes
A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh
Was that it was for not being such a smile;
The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly
From so divine a temple to commix
With winds that sailors rail at.
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.