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46 Numberless poets have varied the theme of the quenching yet burning kisses of love.

sings Waldemar at his meeting with Tove, and Aarestrup laments:

This "burning sweetness" seems to be an indubitable characteristic of a genuine love kiss; we even find it again in Heine:

The emotions consequent on the first kiss have been described in the old naïve, but, nevertheless, exceedingly delicate love-story, of Daphnis and Chloe. As a reward Chloe has bestowed a kiss on Daphnis—an innocent young-maid's kiss, but it has on him the effect of an electrical shock: