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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

I. Admiration

Olivia

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

From “Twelfth Night,” Act I. Sc. 5.

VIOLA.—’T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white

Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on:

Lady, you are the cruel’st she alive,

If you will lead these graces to the grave,

And leave the world no copy.