Impressions of Italy and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley |
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TO M. S. W., ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1833. |
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TO M. S. W., ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1833.
October! grant one glistening ray,
To hail and deck this happy morn;
This gentle and auspicious day,
When Mary—flower of flowers was born.
To hail and deck this happy morn;
This gentle and auspicious day,
When Mary—flower of flowers was born.
October! yield one softening smile,
To greet her on her onward path—
Or let her rosy smiles beguile
Thee of thy bleak and blustering wrath.
To greet her on her onward path—
Or let her rosy smiles beguile
Thee of thy bleak and blustering wrath.
October! spare one blushing flower,
To wreathe amidst her tresses wild;
To bring a dream of Spring's glad hour
To her—the fair and fairy child!
To wreathe amidst her tresses wild;
To bring a dream of Spring's glad hour
To her—the fair and fairy child!
Yet no—dark month—and changeful time;
Thou still mayst frown, around, above—
Yet smiles for her a cloudless clime—
That home—whose light's a Mother's love!
Thou still mayst frown, around, above—
Yet smiles for her a cloudless clime—
That home—whose light's a Mother's love!
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