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The Vine

James Thomson

The wine of Love is music,
  And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
    Love sits long:

Sits long and arises drunken,
  But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
  That great, rich Vine.

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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919

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