Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.

For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

I feel in every smile a chain.

I feel in every smile a chain.

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.

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.

From thy own smile I snatched the snake.

From thy own smile I snatched the snake.

Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.

Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.

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!