Tribute to Oliver Goldsmith

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Tribute to O.Goldsmith

 

When a lovely woman stoops to folly

and finds too late that men betray.

 What can cure her melancholy?

what can wash her guilt away?

 

Oliver Goldsmith

 

When a lovely woman stoops to folly

then she alone must bear the shame.

 She had her fling but now by golly

 she finds that she has lost the game.

 

And finds too late that men betray.

It was her choice she took her chance

Indulged her lust with no delay

and joined him in the oldest dance.

 

What can cure her melancholy?

Except perhaps a new affair

another essay into folly.

Has she the courage will she dare.

 

What can wash her guilt away?

She can pretend to innocence

 What no one knows no one can say.

Her silence is her best defence.

 

18-Feb-08