Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?
Who's sorry for a gnat.. or girl?
Bio: Charles Davenant was an English mercantilist economist, politician, and pamphleteer. He was Tory member of Parliament for St Ives, and for Great Bedwyn.
