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The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4

Part 4 — "WHEN LOVELY WOMAN"

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After Goldsmith

When lovely woman wants a favor, And finds, too late, that man won't bend, What earthly circumstance can save her From disappointment in the end?

The only way to bring him over, The last experiment to try, Whether a husband or a lover, If he have feeling is—to cry.

Phoebe Cary [1824-1871]

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