The literature of kissing

by Charles C. Bombaugh

To kneel and kiss the Pope,

Then I, a sinner, know

Where sweeter kisses grow—

Nay, now, just one before we go!

Tilton: Flight from the Convent.

[Before closing this portion of our selections, it is worth while to note the popular misconception of the favorite ditty “Coming through the Rye,” as shown in the pictorial illustrations which present a laddie and lassie meeting and kissing in a field of grain. The lines,—

“If a laddie meet a lassie

Comin’ thro’ the rye,”

and especially the other couplet,—