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My Fairest Fair

by John Vance Cheney

John Vance Cheney

There is, they say, no sweetest rose,

There is no fairest face; for fancy grows

Its own deceiver.

But, right or wrong, what does love care?

I say, " World over, only one's all fair, "

And so believe her.




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