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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.



Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. Mark Yonder Pomp
  2. My Wife’s a Winsome Wee Thing
  3. O That I Had Ne’er Been Married
  4. Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame
  5. Out Over The Forth


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