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PEP.778.020
10 Feb 1778:671 (4/455)
The Kiss, a Tale. From the German of Mr. Gerstenberg.
When I was a youth, my father sent me to Paphos to study
love, which there I learned of a dryad.-- Fair one, you may
now learn of me what a kiss is. The nymphs and dryads never
met to dance, without making me one of the party; for I was
dedicated to the God of love, and everything within me
expressed the sentiment.
At this tender age I tasted the most pure pleasure. All
Paphos, to me, seemed to dance; for the little loves danced
over my head, and the flowers danced under my feet.
. . . And I squeezed also the hand of the dryad, and blushed
when I danced with her.
. . . [25 lines follow describing the first kiss]
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