SWEET naïveté of feature,
  Simple, wild, enchanting elf,
Not to thee, but thanks to Nature,
  Thou art acting but thyself.
 

Wert thou awkward, stiff, affected,
  Spurning Nature, torturing art;
Loves and Graces all rejected,
  Then indeed thou’d’st act a part.

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Poet: Robert Burns
Poem: 387. 387. Epigram on Miss Fontenelle
Volume: Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year: Published/Written in 1792
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