Social Commentaries
Epigram. From the French of Rulhieres
From Works, ed. Coleridge, vol. VII (1904)
Social Commentaries
IF for silver, or for gold,
You could melt ten thousand pimples
Into half a dozen dimples,
Then your face we might behold,
Looking, doubtless, much more snugly,
Yet even then 'twould be damned ugly.
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Codex Note
August 12, 1819. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 235.
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