998. SINGING A DUET.

Godfried Schalcken (Dutch: 1643-1706). See 199.

A lover holds a guitar, his mistress some music; on the table is a rose—

If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather....
If love were what the rose is
And I were like the leaf.

Swinburne: A Match.