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Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame When love approach'd me under friendship's name; My fancy form'd thee of Angelic kind Some emanation of th'all beauteous kind Those smiling ^ [[addition]] Eyes [[/addition]] attemp'ring ev'ry ray Shone sweetly lambent with celestial day. Guiltless I gaz'd; Heav'n listen'd while you sung And truth divine came minded from that tongue. From lips like those what precept fail'd to move? Too soon they taught me 'twas no Sin to love: Back thro' the paths of pleasing sense I ran Nor wish'd [[underline]] an Angel whom I lov'd [[/underline]] a Man. Oh! happy state, when Souls each other draw When love is liberty and nature law All then is full, possessing, and possest No craving void left aching in the breast Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from [[addition]] the [[/addition]] lips it part And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart This sure is bliss, (if bliss on earth there be) And once [[underline]] the lot of Abelard [[/underline]] and me.
