“And you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover”
Leonard Cohen book The Spice-Box of Earth
"Song", The Spice-Box of Earth (1961)
“I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater
and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover”
Source: The Spice Box of Earth
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