Poem by Robert Burns

On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character

SWEET naivete of feature,
  Simple, wild, enchanting elf,
Not to thee, but thanks to Nature,
  Thou art acting but thyself.

Wert thou awkward, stiff, affected,
  Spurning nature, torturing art;
Loves and graces all rejected,
  Then indeed thou’dst act a part.

1. Scroggam
2. Lines Written on a Bank-note
3. Lines Written at Loudon Manse
4. To Alex Cunningham, Writer
5. How Lang And Dreary

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