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Henry Austin Dobson on Beauty

1840–1921 England

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The ladies of St. James’s!
They’re painted to the eyes;
Their white it stays forever
Their red it never dies:
But Phillida, my Phillida!
Her colour comes and goes;
It trembles to a lily,—
It wavers to a rose.

At the Sign of the Lyre (1885)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Austin Dobson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.