Book 2 — FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE[443:2]
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FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE[443:2]
O fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind! As Eve's first star thro' fleecy cloudlet peeping; And sweeter than the gentle south-west wind. O'er willowy meads, and shadow'd waters creeping, And Ceres' golden fields;—the sultry hind 5 Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping.
? 1824.
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LINENOTES:
Title] Love's First Hope 1893.