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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: VII
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ON HER VANITY
 What are these things thou lovest? Vanity.
 To see men turn their heads when thou dost pass;
 To be the signboard and the looking--glass
 Where every idler there may glut his eye;
 To hear men speak thy name mysteriously,
 Wagging their heads. Is it for this, alas,
 That thou hast made a placard of a face
 On which the tears of love were hardly dry?
 What are these things thou lovest? The applause
 Of prostitutes at wit which is not thine;
 The sympathy of shop--boys who would weep
 Their shilling`s worth of woe in any cause,
 At any tragedy.--Their tears and mine,
 What difference? Oh truly tears are cheap!
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