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Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.

Bepaint, be-pānt′, v.t. to paint over: to colour.

Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night.

Stalin: Thou knowst the iron curtain masks my face Else might I blush, perchance bepaint my cheek, For meeting thee half way.

The beautiful passage— Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night— was declaimed with the painful precision of a schoolgirl who has been taught to recite by some second-rate professor of elocution.