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Christina Georgina Rossetti - Beauty Is Vain
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While roses are so red,
  While lilies are so white,
Shall a woman exalt her face
  Because it gives delight?
She`s not so sweet as a rose,
  A lily`s straighter than she,
And if she were as red or white
  She`d be but one of three.

Whether she flush in love`s summer
  Or in its winter grow pale, 
Whether she flaunt her beauty
  Or hide it away in a veil,
Be she red or white,
  And stand she erect or bowed,
Time will win the race he runs with her
  And hide her away in a shroud.
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