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Thomas Carew on Beauty

1595–1640 England

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Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could
Preserve from death's hand this their heav'nly mould.

Poems (1640)

It is not beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon's despair,
Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand,
Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair.

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