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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

III. Love’s Beginnings

Sly Thoughts

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896)

“I SAW him kiss your cheek!”—“’T is true.”

“O Modesty!”—“’T was strictly kept:

He thought me asleep; at least, I knew

He thought I thought he thought I slept.”