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88 THE LADYE'S CHAPLET.

" for thee, Love, when the morning skies

Their earliest beams of rosy radiance wear,

And earthly things a heavenly brightness bear;

The bending Flowers upraise their tearful eyes,

Heavy with pearly dew that on them lies,

And the fond sun, with all a nurse's care,

Kisses the shining drops that lingered there

From each moist, downcast face; and soon arise,

In laughing beauty, all the glittering band.

How gaily dance they on the wavy air!

The fields and garden are a fairy land—

And sportive Mab, on some tall lily fair,