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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up boldly, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat ... or girl?
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up boldly, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat ... or girl?
In print by 1901 AD · modern
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- MRS. BROWNING (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1901 AD · modern
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote196 · printed citation: MRS. BROWNING: Aurora Leigh, Bk. ii., Line 732.
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