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First Line: To keep in sight perfection, and adore
Last Line: Than keep her long'd-for loveliness in sight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Beauty


To keep in sight Perfection, and adore
Her beauty, is the artist's best delight;
His bitterest torture, that he can no more
Than keep her long'd-for loveliness in sight.





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