Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.
VIII. To Minnie (With a hand-glass)
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A paltry setting for your face,
A thing that has no worth until
You lend it something of your grace,
Laid by awhile upon the shelf)
Because I would not send a thing
Less charming than you are yourself.
(Dumb thing, I envy its delight)
’T will wish you well, the looking-glass,
And look you in the face to-night.