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| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
| Oliver Goldsmith. 1728–1774 |
| 467. Woman |
| WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, | |
| And finds too late that men betray, | |
| What charm can soothe her melancholy? | |
| What art can wash her tears away? | |
| The only art her guilt to cover, | 5 |
| To hide her shame from ev'ry eye, | |
| To give repentance to her lover, | |
| And wring his bosom is—to die. |
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