Love
Suppose
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton E. Stevenson (1912)
Love
How sad if, by some strange new law,
All kisses scarred!
For she who is most beautiful
Would be most marred.
And we might be surprised to see
Some lovely wife
Smooth-visaged, while a seeming prude
Was marked for life.
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Aldrich, Anne Reeve. “Suppose.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/aldrich_ar/12/.
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Aldrich, Anne Reeve. “Suppose.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/aldrich_ar/12/.
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