Song: "When thy beauty appears"

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 repli'd,

"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