"The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom——is to die."
— Oliver Goldsmith

January 1, 1970

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Variant: And wring his bosom, is—to die. — Parodied by T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922): When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.