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THE JE NE SAIS QUOI by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD

Poet Analysis

First Line: YES, I'M IN LOVE, I FEEL IT NOW
Last Line: OF CELIA ALL TOGETHER.
Subject(s): LOVE;

YES, I'm in love, I feel it now,
And Celia has undone me!
And yet I'll swear I can't tell how
The pleasing plague stole on me.

'Tis not her face that love creates,
For there no graces revel;
'Tis not her shape, for there the Fates
Have rather been uncivil.

'Tis not her air, for, sure, in that
There's nothing more than common;
And all her sense is only chat,
Like any other woman.

Her voice, her touch, might give the alarm,
'Twas both, perhaps, or neither!
In short, 'twas that provoking charm
Of Celia all together.



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