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SHE WAS A BEAUTY by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE WAS A BEAUTY IN THE DAYS
Last Line: WHEN MADISON WAS PRESIDENT.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; PAST;
SHE was a beauty in the days
When Madison was President,
And quite coquettish in her ways, --
On conquests of the heart intent.

Grandpapa, on his right knee bent,
Wooed her in stiff, old-fashioned phrase, --
She was a beauty in the days
When Madison was President.

And when your roses where hers went
Shall go, my Rose, who date from Hayes,
I hope you'll wear her sweet content
Of whom tradition lightly says:
She was a beauty in the days
When Madison was President.



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