In Cupid’s Court

A Kiss

You ask me what’s a kiss?
  ’Tis Cupid’s keenest arrow!
A thing to take a “miss”—
(You ask me what’s a kiss?)
The brink of an abyss!
  A lover’s pathway, narrow.
You ask me what’s a kiss?
  ’Tis Cupid’s keenest arrow!

Charles Henry Lüders.