On a WEDDING. Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert) 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. T141063 Hands, Elizabeth, 1746-1815. The death of Amnon. A poem. With an appendix: containing pastorals, and other poetical pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. [Coventry] Printed for the author, by N. Rollason, Coventry, M,DCCLXXXIX. 1789 p. 85. [40],127,[1]p.; 8⁰.

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On a WEDDING . Hark ! hark ! how the bells ring , how happy the day , Now Thirsis makes Daphne his bride ; See cheerful birds chirping on ev'ry green spray , And summer shines forth in its pride . The lads and the lasses , so jocund and gay , Their happiness hail with a song ; And Thirsis enchantingly pipes to their lay , Inspiring with mirth all the throng . The bride and the bride groom then join in the dance And smiling trip nimbly around ; The sprightly gay bride's-maids as nimbly advance , And answer their smiles with a bound . With all marriage articles pen'd on the heart , The parties so sweetly agreed ; They needed no lawyer , with quibbling art , Or parchment to draw up a deed . For Love , the first blessing of blessings below , That Heaven to mortals can give , Was all the kind shepherdess had to bestow , And all that she wish'd to receive .