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The Ape |
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Title: The Ape Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb] (1806)
To love a beast in any sort, I have known the power of two fair eyes, But I would give two hundred smiles, This beast, this Ape, it had a face-- A Negro flat--a Pagod squat, But TIME, that's meddling, meddling still That turns the sweetest buds to flowers, Has changed away my Ape at last And fair to sight is she--and still The tale of Sphinx, and Theban jests, Whilst a hid being I pursue, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |