Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
387 . Epigram on Miss Fontenelle
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Simple, wild, enchanting elf,
Not to thee, but thanks to Nature,
Thou art acting but thyself.
Spurning Nature, torturing art; Loves and Graces all rejected, Then indeed thou’d’st act a part.