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SANG TO FANNY by HORACE SMITH

First Line: NATURE! THY FAIR AND SMILING FACE
Last Line: AND ALL THE WORLD TO ME IS FANNY.
Subject(s): FACES; NATURE; SINGING & SINGERS;

NATURE! thy fair and smiling face
Has now a double power to bless,
For 'tis the glass in which I trace
My absent Fanny's loveliness.

Her heavenly eyes above me shine,
The rose reflects her modest blush,
She breathes in every eglantine,
She sings in every warbling thrush.

That @3her@1 dear form alone I see
Need not excite surprise in any,
For Fanny's all the world to me,
And all the world to me is Fanny.



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