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- 1816
- SONG
- ("O BLUSH NOT SO")
- by John Keats
- SONG
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- I.
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- O blush not so! O blush not so!
- Or I shall think you knowing;
- And if you smile the blushing while,
- Then maidenheads are going.
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- II.
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- There's a blush for want, and a blush for shan't,
- And a blush for having done it:
- There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught,
- And a blush for just begun it.
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- III.
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- O sigh not so! O sigh not so!
- For it sounds of Eve's sweet pippin;
- By these loosen'd lips you have tasted the pips
- And fought in an amorous nipping.
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- IV.
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- Will you play once more at nice-cut-core,
- For it only will last our youth out,
- And we have the prime of the kissing time,
- We have not one sweet tooth out.
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- V.
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- There's a sigh for aye, and a sigh for nay,
- And a sigh for I can't bear it!
- O what can be done, shall we stay or run?
- O cut the sweet apple and share it!
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- THE END
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