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The wine of Love is music, And the feast of Love is song : And when Love sits down to the banquet, Love sits long: : * * * * * Sits long and rises drunken, But not with the feast and the wine; He reeleth with his own heart, That great, rich Vine.

The wine of Love is music, And the feast of Love is song : And when Love sits down to the banquet, Love sits long: : * * * * * Sits long and rises drunken, But not with the feast and the wine; He reeleth with his own heart, That great, rich Vine.

Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern

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James Thomson
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Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)

Printed page 399 · quotation 22 · James Thomson · The Vine.

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