English poem
From The French Of Rulhières.[108]
by Baron Byron George Gordon Byron
IF for silver, or for gold, You could melt ten thousand pimples Into half a dozen dimples, Then your face we might behold, Looking, doubtless, much more snugly, Yet even then 'twould be damned ugly.
August 12, 1819. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 235.]