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XV. TO A FRIEND ON HER BIRTH-DAY.
This is the day sacred to love and mirthAnd tender wishes; this the favoured day
(Sweet superstition!) when the artless lay
Is welcomed, and the token little worth,
And the fond vows, which live and have their birth
In the affectionate heart; a holiday
It is, for good and gentle, fair and gay,
My lovely Jane, it gave thee to the earth.
And thou hast trodden life's path with a wise glee,
Maid of the laughing eye! Were I the Queen
Of that so famous land of Faëry
Where quaintest spirits weave their spells unseen,
No better benison I'd pour on thee
Than to be happy still as thou hast been.
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