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Sure never pain such beauty wore,
Or look’d so amiable before!

— William Broome Poems on Several Occasions (1727)

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But see! the pains begin to fly;
Tho’ Venus bled she could not die:
See the new phœnix point her eyes,
And lovelier from her ashes rise.

Poems on Several Occasions (1727)

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Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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