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[Brownlie]

This is nice ballad meter, but you need to stick with the same voice in S3.

You start here 1st person, but do not stay with it in L3: Should read "To grow a rose upon my cheek"

"A spirit I could hold in hand
A goading cup of sun
To grow a rose upon a cheek
And make my body run."

Plus that last line seems somewhat nonsensical and mainly for the rhyme. What does "And make my body run" mean? Is it a colloquialism?

Dale,

Thank you for your comment. You point out a good observation with stanza three. As for the last line it is an oblique reference to an Andrew Marvell poem, To His Coy Mistress.