THE VILLAGE MAIDEN.
She was not fair to outward view As other maidens be ; Hers was that loveliness of soul That only few could see. She had no jevvels.in her hair, No pendant at her breaat; But in her own simplicity Was naturally drest. And when amid her garden flowers She bent, in fragrant toil; She seemed like them of native growth, The product of the soil. Her lowly cottage, where it stood With ivy covered o'er, Became a palace, when the looked From window or from door. A simple village girl, and yet Such grace to her was given, The mind, the music in her face, Came down direct from Heaven.
Gerard Lewis.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2125, 20 February 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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114THE VILLAGE MAIDEN. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2125, 20 February 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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