TO MY DAUGHTER, ON BEING SEPARATED FROM HER ON HER MARRIAGE Anne Hunter (née Home) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Hunter, Anne Home (Mrs. John), 1742-1821. Poems, by Mrs. John Hunter. London Printed for T. Payne, Mews Gate, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street 1802 pp. 33-34.

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TO MY DAUGHTER , ON BEING SEPARATED FROM HER ON HER MARRIAGE DEAR to my heart as life's warm stream , Which animates this mortal clay , For thee I court the waking dream , And deck with smiles the future day ; And thus beguile the present pain With hopes that we shall meet again . Yet will it be , as when the past Twin'd ev'ry joy , and care , and thought , And o'er our minds one mantle cast Of kind affections finely wrought ? Ah no ! the groundless hope were vain , For so we ne'er can meet again ! May he who claims thy tender heart Deserve its love , as I have done ! For , kind and gentle as thou art , If so belov'd , thou'rt fairly won . Bright may the sacred torch remain , And cheer thee till we meet again !