Be mine to encounter Lion grisly-eyed!"

While he was speaking Love on leftward side

(As wont) approving sneeze from dextral sped.

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But Acmé backwards gently bending head,

And the love-drunken eyes of her sweet boy

Kissing with yonder rosy mouth, "My joy,"

She murmured, "my life-love Septumillus mine!

Unto one master's hest let's aye incline,

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