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according to recently released figures,
there were, more children born during the depression than there had been in good
times. This means that, although married people did not have money, they still
had themselves. They still had love. They still had the ability to kiss as they
pleased and when they pleased and as often as they pleased.
Another poet asks:
What is a kiss? alack, at worst,
A-single drop to quench a thirst,
Tho oft it proves in happier hour,
The first sweet drop of one long shower.
Because kisses cost nothing.
So kiss on. Keep on kissing. Rare old Ben
Jonson realized this when he wrote that, if he had one wish, it would be that he
could die kissing. But it is not only the robust and lusty poets, like Ben
Jonson, who are gluttons for kisses. There has been attributed to John Ruskin,
an old fogy of a philosopher if ever there was one, a request from him to a
young lady friend of his that she "kiss him not sometimes but continually."
Still another poet wrote:
Kisses told by hundreds o'er;
Thousands told by thousands more.
Millions, countless millions then
Told by millions o'er again;
Countless as the drops that glide
In the ocean's billowy tide,
Countless as yon orbs of light
Spangled o'er the vault of night
I'll with ceaseless love bestow
On those cheeks of crimson glow,
On those lips so gently swelling,
On those eyes such fond tales telling.
PUT VARIETY INTO YOUR KISSES
It is with the last few lines of this poem
that our next subject for discussion concerns itself. As was mentioned before,
the true lover is not satisfied with only one or two contacts. He wants n6thing
to be held from him. It is for that reason that, when kissing a girl, after. you
have given sufficient time to the kissing of her lips, you should vary your
kissing by diverting your zeal to other portions of her face. Robert Herrick,
who wrote, many beautiful love lyrics in his day, has a poem which ideally
synthesizes this idea of varied kisses. In it he says:
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