ALL ABOUT A KISS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1184, 30 September 1885, Page 5

ALL ABOUT A KISS.

[By Miss M .]

Now, what experience is equal to the sensation of a kiss 1 The effect of a kiss traverses your body like a galvanic shock. It sets your blood a-boiling, and makes it surge through your veins like water through a sluice- box. It makes your heart beat, and your eyes twinkle like stars on a frosty night. It is a thing never to be forgotten. It wafts your very soul to the transcendency of the seventh heaven of delight. No language or words can express it ; and letters are inadequate to give the sound of it. And, what then, is equal to the flavor cf it? — it haa no equal. There is something heavenly and transporting about it. It is not gross, or you might feed on it and, perhaps, grow fat. The palate is not required to test its taste. It is neither visible nor tangible, nor portable, nor transferable. It is not a substance, nor a liquid, nor a vapor. It has neither color nor form. Imagination cannot cenceive it. It can neither be forged; nor imitated. It is not confined to any particular clime or country, but is übiquitous. It is disembodied when completed, but may be instantly reproduced. It is a3 old as the creation, and yet it is as young and as fresh as ever. It pre-existed, still exists, and always will exist. It pervades all nature. The zephyr, as it passes, kisses the blushing rose, and the tranquil, limpid stream that forms itself in an eddy to meet it, and raises its tiny ripplet3 like anxious lips to receive it. There is something transcendent. in it. It is adapted to nearly all circumstances. There is the kiss of welcome, and the kiss of parting ; the long, lingering one, and the 3hort, sweet one ; the kiss of joy, and the kiss of sorrow ; the kiss of promise, and the kiss of fulfilment ; the mutual kiss, and the stolen kiss.