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When Beauty Is Bald
by Edward DysonI've sung of Honor's golden hair
And Hero's auburn tresses,
Of Bella's back abundance, where
The sun throws his caresses;
I've sung of curl, and coil, and braid;
On meshes I've dilated,
Until at last I'm sore afraid
There's nothing re the hair of maid
That I have left unstated.
'Twill much relieve the constant strain
Of rhyming to extol her
When on the roof of Sophie's brain
Appears a bright cupola.
The poet's verse will freshly run,
Effects will come much faster,
If he may tell the darling one
Her skull is glowing like the sun
And smooth as alabaster.
New stimulus the singer nerves,
When beauty, scorning switches,
Adds to her many swelling curves
A baldness that bewitches.
We've sung too many wigs, I swear,
And now the poet mocks myths,
For Juliet in her head of air
Outshines the moon, and everywhere,
Love really laughs at locksmiths.