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I'll tell you why I say so, for 't is just

One should not rail without a decent cause:

There was an Irish lady,149 to whose bust

I ne'er saw justice done, and yet she was

A frequent model; and if e'er she must

Yield to stern Time and Nature's wrinkling laws,

They will destroy a face which mortal thought

Ne'er compassed, nor less mortal chisel wrought.