Philander's Song

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(from "The Sprightly Pilgrim")

I sat and read Anacreon. Moved by the gay, delicious measureI mused that lips were made for love, And love to charm a poet's leisure.

And as I mused a maid came by With something in her look that caught me.Forgotten was Anacreon's line, But not the lesson he had taught me.

© Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts