 | Poems Chiefly Lyric and Elegiac |  |
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SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS.
She whose young heart is set on finery
And such fantastic fashionable toys
As keep a woman from her proper joys
And mar the bloom of serious modesty:
She shall have naught but ridicule from me
And strong contempt; for her fond life destroys
The seemliness of girlhood, and annoys
With taints of ill, its frank integrity.
And such fantastic fashionable toys
As keep a woman from her proper joys
And mar the bloom of serious modesty:
She shall have naught but ridicule from me
And strong contempt; for her fond life destroys
The seemliness of girlhood, and annoys
With taints of ill, its frank integrity.
Ah, the true maiden needs no better grace,
No sweeter charm, no higher dignity,
Than the meek beauty of an innocent face,
And gentleness, the crown of courtesy:
She who has these, will choose the simplest wear,
And be in that, most queenly and most fair.
No sweeter charm, no higher dignity,
Than the meek beauty of an innocent face,
And gentleness, the crown of courtesy:
She who has these, will choose the simplest wear,
And be in that, most queenly and most fair.
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