THOU ART LOVELIER.

WRITTEN BY

RICHARD HOWITT.

MUSIC BY

MARIA B. HAWES.

Thou art lovelier than the coming

Of the fairest flow’rs of spring,

When the wild bee wanders humming,

Like a blessed fairy thing.

Thou art lovelier than the breaking

Of the Orient crimson’d morn,

When the gentlest winds are shaking

The

dew-drops from the thorn

Thou art lovelier than the coming

Of the fairest flower of spring,

When the wild bee wanders humming,

Like a blessed fairy thing.

SECOND VERSE.

I have seen the wild flow’rs springing

In field, in wood, in glen,

Where a thousand birds are singing,

And my thoughts were of thee then;

For there’s nothing gladsome round me,

Nothing beautiful to see,

Since thy beauty’s spell hath bound me,

But is eloquent of thee.

Thou art lovelier than the coming

Of the fairest flow’rs of spring,

When the wild bee wanders humming

Like a blessed fairy thing.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Obvious type-setting and punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals available for preparation of the eBook.

page 171, Or Cythereas breath; ==> Or Cytherea’s breath;

page 171, pearled Acturi of the ==> pearled Arcturi of the

page 172, the same harrassed air ==> the same harassed air

page 180, pointless harrangues “nay, ==> pointless harangues “nay,

page 181, for her to pursuade ==> for her to persuade

page 188, “I will commisserate the ==> “I will commiserate the

page 192, offend, he plead his early ==> offend, he pleaded his early

page 208, PORTRAIT OF GENERAL GREENE. ==> caption was missing in available scans so caption used is based on entry in the index for the volume.

page 208, LIFE OF GENERAL NATHANIEL GREENE ==> correct spelling is ‘Nathanael’, but the ‘Nathaniel’ spelling throughout the article has been left as printed.

[End of Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, March 1850]