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I'll Be Beautiful [from the Boston Evening Transcript]

Denison, Mary A. "I'll Be Beautiful [from the Boston Evening Transcript]." New-York Saturday Press. 15 Feb. 1859: 1.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

The poem observes two girls who desire beauty: one using her looks and breeding, the other through chastity and piety. The first wishes to "rule [her] lovers with smiles and sighs" while the second preaches, "if the heart be holy, 'tis beautiful."