A Vision of Beauty

by Ben Jonson English

It was a beauty that I saw,—   So pure, so perfect, as the frame   Of all the universe were lame To that one figure, could I draw, Or give least line of it a law:   A skein of silk without a knot! A fair march made without a halt! A curious form without a fault!   A printed book without a blot!   All beauty!—and without a spot.

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