The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM CCXXVI.
[In Celia's face see coxcomb Gellio stare]
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.
In Celia's face see coxcomb Gellio stare;
As if all beauty, and all grace, shone there!—
And does there any brilliance there reside?
Yes—paste and paint, that scars and wrinkles hide—
And does the coxcomb then, delight to view
A mask, no mortal optics can see thro'?
No!—that impenetrable mask supplies
An object, dearer far to Gellio's eyes;
Gellio's whole thoughts are on himself alone,
Th' excessive polish o'er her feature's thrown,
Acts as a mirror—and reflects his Own!
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