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36 In another Servian lay, the lover sings that he would rather kiss his sweetheart than be the Sultan's guest. In Spain the lover wishes he were the water-cooler so that he might kiss his darling's lips when she is drinking:

The Greeks say that the kiss is "the key to Paradise"; yea, it is Paradise itself, declares Wergeland:

The kiss is a preservation against every ill. "No ill-luck can betide me when she bestows on me a kiss," sings the old trouvère, Colin Muset:

It gives health and strength, adds Heine: