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What likeness may define, and stray not
From truth’s exactest way,
A baby’s beauty? Love can say not
What likeness may.
What likeness may define, and stray not
From truth’s exactest way,
A baby’s beauty? Love can say not
What likeness may.
The Mayflower loveliest held in May
Of all that shine and stay not
Laughs not in rosier disarray.
Of all that shine and stay not
Laughs not in rosier disarray.
Sleek satin, swansdown, buds that play not
As yet with winds that play,
Would fain be matched with this, and may not:
What likeness may?
As yet with winds that play,
Would fain be matched with this, and may not:
What likeness may?
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