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ON AN UGLY PERSON SITTING FOR A DAGUERREOTYPE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here nature in her glass - the wanton elf
Last Line: Repeats the blunders that she made before!
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Ugliness


HERE Nature in her glass -- the wanton elf --
Sits gravely making faces at herself;
And, while she scans each clumsy feature o'er,
Repeats the blunders that she made before!





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