 you live to fee the day When Stella's locks muft all be grey. When age muft print a furrow'd trace On every feature of her face ; Though you, and all your fenfelefs tribe, Could art, or time, or nature bribe, To make you look like Beauty's  The Works of the English Poets: Swift - Page 170by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | A. B. England - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 252 pages
...When Age must print a furrow'd Trace On ev'ry Feature of her face; Though you and all your senceless Tribe Could Art or Time or Nature bribe To make you look like Beauty's Queen And hold for ever at fifteen. No Bloom of Youth can ever blind The Cracks and Wrinckles of your... | |
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