Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO CURE BLUSHES', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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TO CURE BLUSHES', by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was an advertisement
Last Line: But what can cure the cure?
Subject(s): Blushing; Cosmetics


It was an advertisement
Appropriately bold ''"
I cannot tell the maker.
Nor where the stuff was sold;

But in a glaring headline,
With letters big and black.
It promised to cure blushing,
Or give the money back.

Alas for maiden faces,
All innocent and bright!
Alas for maiden spirits,
With childhood thoughts alight!

Fareweli the glowing token
Of purity and truth,
And hail, cosmetic girlhood.
And never-blushing youth!

Bleach out the scarlet blossoms,
Freeze hard the marble cheeks,
And teach an equal simper
If vice or virtue speaks;

For blushes show unworldllness
And hearts that still are pure,
And there's a cure for blushing ''"
But what con cure the cure?





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