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JAMES THOMSON 03 Gifts
GIVE a man a horse he can ride, Give a man a boat he can sail , And his rank and wealth, his strength and health, On sea nor shore shall fail.
��Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read:
And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeed.
��Give a man a girl he can love,
As I, O my love, love thee, And his heart is great with the pulse of Fate,
At home, on land, on sea.
��804 The 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 arises drunken,
But not with the feast and the wine ; He reeleth with his own heart,
That great, rich Vine.
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