Nor dread the boist’rous gale.
The Mirror, July 19, 1823.
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An Apropos Soliloquy.
By a Girl of the Period.
To dye, or not to dye, that is the question:—
“Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer”
Th’ outrageous colour of Dame Nature born,
The very “head and front of my offending”
Against the fiat of chameleon Fashion,
Or summon Art to aid me? Shall I end