Lovely maid

1. 
   
   A new years welcome lovely maid
   
2. Awakes the poets song
   
3. Be not of moral truths afraid
   
4. Nor deem the lesson wrong
   
5. Though newyears still their welcomes bring
   
6. & hails thy blooming hour
   
7. & on the green lap of the spring
   
8. Leaves thee its fairest flower
   
   
9. The withered year had youth & pride
   
10. As thy unclouded joy
    
11. But the today though deified
    
12. To morrow shall destroy
    
13. & sweet as is thy lovely bloom
    Of mingled white & red
14. A days in waiting yet to come
    
15. Shall find that beauty fled

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Image by Lady Clementina Harwarden (1860)

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