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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

The Vine

James Thomson (1834–1882)

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.