LINES TO HELEN, A NEW-BORN INFANT, 1821.

LINES TO HELEN, A NEW-BORN INFANT, 1821. Helen Maria Williams 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. Williams, Helen Maria, 1759-1827. Poems on various subjects: with introductory remarks on the present state of science and literature in France. London G. and W. B. Whittaker 1823 p. [276].

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LINES TO HELEN , A NEW-BORN INFANT , 1821. She lives — that first pulsation of the heart Is life ! — receive , dear babe , thy destin'd part ; Yet frail thy being as the op'ning rose When chill the rude wind blows . But ah , be like the blossom of the vale , Lov'd infant , shelter'd from the mountain gale ; On whose meek head descend no ruffling showers , Who lives the span of flowers . And far from thee may sorrow's tempest bend , Nor ever wasting pangs the bosom rend ; Calm be thy day of life , and o'er its bloom May evening mildly come !