Poems (Frances Elizabeth Browne)/Lines for an album
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LINES FOR AN ALBUM.TO MISS A. S.
Alicia bids me wake the lay,
Alicia courts my muse;
Sweet girl, with pleasure I obey,—
'T were painful to refuse;
Alicia courts my muse;
Sweet girl, with pleasure I obey,—
'T were painful to refuse;
For well I feel, though weak the strain,
Though poor the lines may flow,
No critic harsh have I to gain,
Approval to bestow.
Though poor the lines may flow,
No critic harsh have I to gain,
Approval to bestow.
Alicia loves the simplest proof
Of friendship and regard;
To gain her smile were boon enough
To inspire a worthier bard.
Of friendship and regard;
To gain her smile were boon enough
To inspire a worthier bard.
But much I fear her poet's lyre,
Though tuned with earnest heart,
Can never equal or aspire
To half her painter's art.
Though tuned with earnest heart,
Can never equal or aspire
To half her painter's art.
No flowers have I of hue so bright
As his to adorn the page,
No brilliant tints to attract the sight,
And pleased regard engage;
As his to adorn the page,
No brilliant tints to attract the sight,
And pleased regard engage;
Else should the rose of England twine
With Erin's shamrock green,
And friendship's ivy-leaf divine
Bloom verdantly between.
With Erin's shamrock green,
And friendship's ivy-leaf divine
Bloom verdantly between.