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48 the metaphor comes undoubtedly near the truth. With growing passion, kisses become mad and violent:

and such kisses leave marks behind them. Aarestrup's mistress has beautiful plump shoulders:

Hafiz' mistress is afraid that "his too hot kisses will char her delicate lips." With continually increasing desire kisses grow more and more voluptuous, and assume forms which have been celebrated by poets of antiquity and the Renaissance. Many burning, erotic verses have been composed on the subject columbatim labra conserere, or kissing as doves kiss.