Carmen 21: To His Favourite
O loveliest of Juventian bloom!
Thou bud with early beauty grac'd!
Unequall'd by the age to come,
Or by the present, or the past!
O, hadst thou giv'n but paltry pelf
To him, who wants both slave, and chest;
I had not griev'd!——But, that thyself
By yon lewd wretch should be possest!
You'll cry, “he's handsome!”—so he may;
Still that he's poor, you needs must grant:
Reject, extenuate all I say;
Both slave, and chest he's doom'd to want!
Thou bud with early beauty grac'd!
Unequall'd by the age to come,
Or by the present, or the past!
O, hadst thou giv'n but paltry pelf
To him, who wants both slave, and chest;
I had not griev'd!——But, that thyself
By yon lewd wretch should be possest!
You'll cry, “he's handsome!”—so he may;
Still that he's poor, you needs must grant:
Reject, extenuate all I say;
Both slave, and chest he's doom'd to want!
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