[Poems by Botta in] Memoirs of Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta written by her friends ::

[Poems by Botta in] Memoirs of Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta written by her friends

with selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry

Botta, Anne C. Lynch (1815-1891)

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TO JULIETTE ON HER WEDDING-DAY

When our first parents were from Eden driven
To wander exiled in this world of care,
Hope changed to fear, and memory to despair;
But once, to their posterity 't is given
The vision of that blissful home to share:
Whene'er two wedded souls as one are bound,
Then the lost Paradise again is found;
But trifles light as air this dream dispel,
And drive the hapless mortals forth disowned,
In the cold air of common life to dwell.
To-day for thee, these dreamland gates are riven;
Enter, and in its charmèd precincts stay
Till thy sweet life at last shall pass away,
And thou shalt find it is not far to Heaven.

University of Virginia Library

TO JULIETTE ON HER WEDDING-DAY