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BEAUTY AND BRAIN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN I WAS OLD, AND SHE WAS YOUNG
Last Line: THAT BEAUTY HAS TOO SMALL A BRAIN.
Subject(s): LOVE - AGE DIFFERENCES;

When I was old, and she was young,
With all the beauty hers —
I wooed her with a silver tongue,
With music for her ears;
And shall I now complain to find
That Beauty has so small a mind?

If this young Chit had had more sense
Would she have married me?
That she gave me the preference,
Proved what a fool was she:
Then let me die if I complain
That Beauty has too small a brain.



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