Strephon, whose Person ev’ry Grace
Was careful to adorn;
Thought, by the Beauties of his Face,
In Silvia’s Love to find a place,
And wonder’d at her Scorn.
With Bows, and Smiles he did his Part;
But Oh! ’twas all in vain:
A Youth less Fine, a Youth of Art
Had talk’d himself into her Heart,
And wou’d not out again.
Strephon with change of Habits press’d,
And urg’d her to admire;
His Love alone the Other dress’d,
As Verse, or Prose became it best,
And mov’d her soft Desire.
This found, his courtship Strephon ends,
Or makes it to his Glass;
There, in himself now seeks amends,
Convinc’d, that where a Wit pretends,
A Beau is but an Ass.
(Anne Kingsmill Finch)
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