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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 rises drunken, But not with the feast and the wine; He reeleth with his own heart, That great, rich Vine.
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 rises drunken, But not with the feast and the wine; He reeleth with his own heart, That great, rich Vine.
Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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- James Thomson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 399 · quotation 22 · James Thomson · The Vine.
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