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...fell in love with contrasting rhymes and syncopated three-, four-, two-, four- and four-beat lines. Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows . . . Miss Phelps was definitely cool, for a girls' school, having once been spied exiting the campus...

...enflam'd by my desire, It may set her heart a-fire! Another is depicted as sending a message through the rose: Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to me. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where...