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YOUNG BEAUTY by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: WHEN AT EACH DOOR THE RUFFIAN WINDS
Last Line: CAN FEEL THE JOY OF SUMMER'S HEAT.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; YOUTH;
WHEN at each door the ruffian winds
Have laid a dying man to groan,
And filled the air on winter nights
With cries of infants left alone;
And every thing that has a bed
Will sigh for others that have none:

On such a night, when bitter cold,
Young Beauty, full of love thoughts sweet,
Can redden in her looking-glass;
With but one gown on, in bare feet,
She from her own reflected charms
Can feel the joy of summer's heat.



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