LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE BARONESS D' H—

LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE BARONESS D' H——, TO HER TWO DAUGHTERS. 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 pp. [277]-278.

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LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE BARONESS D' H—— , TO HER TWO DAUGHTERS . BRIGHT nymphs , of NEWA'S banks the pride , Receive , before we part , For you , and your maternal guide , The wishes of my heart ! Be every future good your lot ! — But what can fate do more ? Has nature any boon forgot For you in all her store ? While , mids't the wreathes the arts have twin'd Around your brows , we trace That tender modesty of mind That decorates the face ; Grac'd with such forms as RAPHAEL drew Beneath his happiest star , What is there left to ask for you , But wish you — what you are ?