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O SWEETEST MAID! by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

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First Line: O SWEETEST MAID, IN OTHER DAYS
Last Line: O SWEETEST MAID!
Subject(s): LOVE;
O SWEETEST maid, in other days
The troubadours had sung your praise,
And knights had died and joyed to die
To win a smile as you passed by,
While lord and lackey stood at gaze.

What wonder that the task dismays
To wreathe your brow with modern bays,
Or rhyming tricks for you to try,
O sweetest maid!

For you should be those loftier lays
Of which from far the echo strays,
In matchless, murmurous melody
That dies in Love's divinest sigh --
Still Love's strong will my rhyme obeys,
O sweetest maid!



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