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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

III. Love’s Beginnings

Kisses

William Strode (1602–1645)

MY love and I for kisses played:

She would keep stakes—I was content;

But when I won, she would be paid;

This made me ask her what she meant.

“Pray since I see,” quoth she, “your wrangling vein,

Take your own kisses; give me mine again.”