The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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[Beauty, the painful Mother's pray'r]
Beauty, the painful Mother's pray'r,
The Lover's theme, the Virgin's care,
Fair virtue, ease and elegance,
A gentle mind and polish'd sense
Cleora owns; and yet is free
From each affected vanity.
The Lover's theme, the Virgin's care,
Fair virtue, ease and elegance,
A gentle mind and polish'd sense
Cleora owns; and yet is free
From each affected vanity.
But tho' thus lovelily you shine,
Cleora, you're but half divine;
For fiends can beauty imitate,
And yet are fiends, because they hate;
But, would you Love to Beauty join,
Cleora, you were all divine.
Cleora, you're but half divine;
For fiends can beauty imitate,
And yet are fiends, because they hate;
But, would you Love to Beauty join,
Cleora, you were all divine.
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