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SONNET, TO THE LILLY.

1 Soft silken flow'r! that in the dewy vale
2 Unfolds thy modest beauties to the morn,
3 And breath'st thy fragrance on her wand'ring gale,
4 O'er earth's green hills and shadowy vallies born;
5 When day has closed his dazzling eye,
6 And dying gales sink soft away;
7 When Eve steals down the western sky,
8 And mountains, woods, and vales decay;
9 Thy tender cups, that graceful swell,
10 Droop sad beneath her chilly dews;
11 Thy odours seek their silken cell,
12 And twilight veils thy languid hues.
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13 But soon, fair flow'r! the morn shall rise,
14 And rear again thy pensive head;
15 Again unveil thy snowy dyes,
16 Again thy velvet foliage spread.
17 Sweet child of Spring! like thee in sorrow's shade,
18 Full oft I mourn in tears, and droop forlorn:
19 And O! like thine, may light my gloom pervade,
20 And Sorrow fly before Joy's living morn!

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Title (in Source Edition): SONNET, TO THE LILLY.
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, pp. 10-11. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)

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