Song: When Thy Beauty Appears

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When thy beauty appears  
 In its graces and airs  
All bright as an angel new dropp'd from the sky,  
At distance I gaze and am awed by my fears:  
 So strangely you dazzle my eye!  

 But when without art  
 Your kind thoughts you impart,  
When your love runs in blushes through every vein;  
When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart,  
 Then I know you're a woman again.  

 There 's a passion and pride  
 In our sex (she replied),  
And thus, might I gratify both, I would do:  
Still an angel appear to each lover beside,  
 But still be a woman to you.

© Thomas Parnell