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" I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss
Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss,
Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin;
Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is. "

Algernon Charles Swinburne , Poems and Ballads


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Algernon Charles Swinburne quote : I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss<br />Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss,<br />Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin;<br />Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.