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/ I. Thrice on the lips and twice on the eyes / I kiss you or ever I kiss your bosom. -- / When love is young would you have it wise, / Wise as the world goes? -- No! 'tis a blossom / Lovely and wise since it's lovely; content / To live or to die as its folly pleases: / Life is a rose and the rose's scent / Is love, that grows as the rose increases.
/ II. If I tell you the Marquis will die, will you smile? / And laugh when he's dead? -- This powder, my lily, / That seems but an innocent sweet in this phial -- / Do not touch it! breathe distant! -- a poison Exili / Used a life to discover. Its formula left / To a pupil (well worthy the master! ), the prudent / And pious Sainte Croix. Him, of teacher bereft, / The Devil, I deem, must have taken as student.