TO MARY BOYLE.
With the following Poem.
i.
‘Spring-flowers’! While you still delay to take
Your leave of Town,
Our elmtree’s ruddy-hearted blossom-flake
Is fluttering down.
‘Spring-flowers’! While you still delay to take
Your leave of Town,
Our elmtree’s ruddy-hearted blossom-flake
Is fluttering down.
ii.
Be truer to your promise. There! I heard
Our[errata 1] cuckoo call.
Be needle to the magnet of your word,
Nor wait, till all
Be truer to your promise. There! I heard
Our[errata 1] cuckoo call.
Be needle to the magnet of your word,
Nor wait, till all
Errata