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A PRETTY WOMAN.
12.
Is the creature too imperfect, say?
Would you mend it
And so end it?
Since not all addition perfects aye!
Is the creature too imperfect, say?
Would you mend it
And so end it?
Since not all addition perfects aye!
13.
Or is it of its kind, perhaps,
Just perfection—
Whence, rejection
Of a grace not to its mind, perhaps?
Or is it of its kind, perhaps,
Just perfection—
Whence, rejection
Of a grace not to its mind, perhaps?
14.
Shall we burn up, tread that face at once
Into tinder,
And so hinder
Sparks from kindling all the place at once?
Shall we burn up, tread that face at once
Into tinder,
And so hinder
Sparks from kindling all the place at once?