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1847, April
Epigram - On an Ugly Woman sitting for a Daguerreotype

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The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XXIX, April, 1847, p.316.
 
Epigram
On an Ugly Woman sitting for a Daguerreotype
 
By John G. Saxe
 
Here Nature in her glass (the wanton elf!)
Sits gravely 'making faces' at herself;
And while she scans her clumsy features o'er
Repeats the blunders that she made of yore!
 
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