English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Oliver Goldsmith
308. When Lovely Woman Stoops
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And finds too late that men betray,—
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is—to die.