—Let this instructive flow’r, my fair,
A grateful secret thus impart,
How you may beauty’s charms repair,
Unaided by cosmetic art.
When time (that worst of female foes)
Has torn, with ruthless hand, away
From beauty’s cheek the blushing rose,
Which far outvies the blooms of May,
For orient, renovating dew,
Which purples o’er this regal flow’r;