 | The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe |  |
OVER-CANDID.
Bouncing Bess, discoursing free,Owned, with wondrous meekness,
Just one fault (what could it be?)
One peculiar weakness;
She in candor must confess
Nature failed to send her
Woman's usual tenderness
Toward the other gender.
Foolish Bessie!—thus to tell;
Had she not confessed it,
Not a man who knows her well
Ever would have guessed it!
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