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(With a hand-glass)
A PICTURE-FRAME for you to fill, / A paltry setting for your face, / A thing that has no worth until / You lend it something of your grace
I send (unhappy I that sing / Laid by awhile upon the shelf) / Because I would not send a thing / Less charming than you are yourself.
And happier than I, alas! / (Dumb thing, I envy its delight) / 'Twill wish you well, the looking-glass, / And look you in the face to-night.