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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OVER-CANDID; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poet's Biography
First Line: Bouncing bess, discoursing free
Last Line: Ever would have guessed it!
Subject(s): Candor
First Line: Bouncing bess, discoursing free
Last Line: Ever would have guessed it!
Subject(s): Candor
BOUNCING Bess, discoursing free,
Owned, with wondrous meekness,
Just one fault (what could it be?)
One peculiar weakness;
She in candor must confess
Nature failed to send her
Woman's usual tenderness
Toward the other gender.
Foolish Bessie! -- thus to tell;
Had she not confessed it,
Not a man who knows her well
Ever would have guessed it!
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