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Edward Moore on Beauty

d. 1757 England

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But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

The maid who modestly conceals
Her beauties, while she hides, reveals;
Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws
Whate’er the Grecian Venus was.

Fables for the Female Sex (1744)

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