BIRTH-DAY To the same, on Richmond-Green, Soon after her being Maid of Honour to Queen CAROLINE. Mary Jones 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. T115196 Jones, Mary, d. 1778. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. By Mary Jones. Oxford Printed; and delivered by Mr. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, Mr. Clements in Oxford, and Mr. Frederick in Bath, MDCCL. 1750 p. 117. vi,[1],xlv,[1],405p.

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BIRTH-DAY To the same , on Richmond-Green , Soon after her being Maid of Honour to Queen CAROLINE . Bring , bring the lyre , to usher in the morn ; Delia , the gentlest Maid , to day was born : And tho' she twenty summer suns has seen , Tho' now among the nymphs of Britain's Queen , Is still the gentlest Maid upon the green . Sure guardian Sylphs around her paths attend ! Without a foe , and worthy ev'ry Friend . In one bright calm may each succeeding year Roll guiltless on , unruffled by a care ! Till future Maids of Honour have approv'd The grove she haunted , and the stream she lov'd : And each bright Sister , emulous , proclaim , That Innocence and Pleasure are the same .