LXXIV.

Besides Platonic love, besides the love

Of God, the love of sentiment, the

loving Of faithful pairs—(I needs must rhyme with dove,

That good old steam-boat which keeps verses moving

'Gainst reason—Reason ne'er was hand-and-glove

With rhyme, but always leant less to improving

The sound than sense)—besides all these pretences

To Love, there are those things which words name senses;

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