I ONLY WISH TO KNOW.

Pray do not take the kiss again I risked so much in getting, Nor let my blushes make you vain To your and my regretting. I'm sure I've heard your sex repeat A thousand times or so, That stolen kisses are most sweet— I only wished to know!

I own 'twas not so neatly done As you know how to do it, And that the fright out-did the fun, But still I do not rue it. I can afford the extra beat My heart took at your "Oh!" Which plainly said that kiss was sweet— When I so wished to know!

Nay, I will not give back the kiss, Nor will I take a second; Creme de la creme of pain and bliss This one shall e'er be reckoned. The pain was mine, the bliss was—ours, You smile to hear it so; But the same thought was surely yours, As I have cause to know.