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When I kiss your face to make you smile, my darling, I surely

understand what pleasure streams from the sky in morning light,

and what delight that is that is which the summer breeze brings

to my body-when I kiss you to make you smile.

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Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast

given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant

near and made a brother of the stranger.

I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter;

I forget that there abides the old in the new, and that there

also thou abidest.

Through birth and death, in this world or in others, wherever

thou leadest me it is thou, the same, the one companion of my

endless life who ever linkest my heart with bonds of joy to the

unfamiliar.

When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is

shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the bliss of

the touch of the one in the play of many.

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