Love
Impromptu
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
Love
Beneath Blessington's eyes
The reclaimed Paradise
Should be free as the former from evil;
But if the new Eve
For an Apple should grieve,
What mortal would not play the Devil?
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Codex Note
April, 1823. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 635.
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