The Je Ne Sais Quoi

William WhiteheadWilliam Whitehead12 Feb 1715

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YES, I'm in love, I feel it now,

And Cælia has undone me;

    And yet I'll swear I can't tell how

The pleasing plague stole on me.

    'Tis not her face that love creates,

For there no graces revel;

    'Tis not her shape, for there the fates

Have rather been uncivil.

    'Tis not her air, for sure in that

There's nothing more than common;

    And all her sense is only chat

Like any other woman.

    Her voice, her touch, might give th' alarm--

'Twas both perhaps, or neither;

    In short, 'twas that provoking charm

Of Cælia altogether.

William Whitehead
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William Whitehead

William Whitehead (baptized 12 February 1715 – 14 April 1785) was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position. The son of a baker, Whitehead was born in Cambridge and through the patronage of Henry B…

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