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[HIPPONA]
Hippona lets no silly flush
Disturb her cheek, nought makes her blush.
Whate'er obscenities you say,
She nods and titters frank and gay.
Oh Shame, awake one honest flush
For this,—that nothing makes her blush.
First published in Morning Post, (?) Aug. 29, 1799. Included in An. Anth., 1800, and in Essays, &c., iii. 971. First collected P. and D. W., ii. 164. Adapted from Lessing's Sinngedicht No. 10. Auf Lucinden. 'Sie hat viel Welt, die muntere Lucinde.'