TO MY DAUGHTER FLORENCE.

 "More Bed-Time Stories," Sweetest Heart,

And all to you belong:

All that I have and am, my dear,

I give you with my song.

All that I have and am, my dear,

Is not too much to pay

As tribute to the fair, young queen

Who rules my heart to-day;

As tribute to the dear, blue eyes,

And to the golden hair,

And sweet, new grace of maidenhood¹

That wraps you everywhere,—

The shy surprise of maidenhood,

That still turns back to hear

The tales I tell at shut of day:—

So these are yours, my dear.

L. C. M.

October, 1874.

1 maidenhood   

n. 处女性, 处女时代

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