Can aught be more fair to the eye
Than the blush of the maidenly year?
Can aught with the orchard-bloom vie,
When in May its sweet blossoms appear?
Can aught like the eglantine please,
Or the rose budding? Tell me, what can?
O thrice more attracting than these
Is the cheek of my sweet little Anne.
What can charm like the spring of the field,
When it trickles transparently by?
Or what sweeter pleasure can yield,
Than to look on the gems of the sky?
What can win like the tremulous dew
Which the Zephyrs on gossamer fan?
O thrice more enchanting to view
Is the eye of my sweet little Anne.
Can aught like the morning delight,
When it dawns toward peaceable day?
Or bewitch like the planet of night,
When she steals in good humour away?
Is there aught like the sweetness of eve,
When, serene as when nature began,
The soft sun takes his mellow last leave?
Yes, the smile of my sweet little Anne.
Can aught more delicious be nam’d
Than the exquisite fruit of the pine?
More inviting can aught be proclaim’d
Than the elegant bunch of the vine?
Is there aught can in flavour exceed
Ev’ry beverage precious to man?
O yes, these are tasteless indeed
To the kiss of my sweet little Anne.
Thrice more than the sun-setting hour,
Or the dawn of the morning, benign,
More delightful than spring’s sweetest flow’r,
Or the mirth-making juice of the vine,
More serene than the gems of the sky,
And more soft than the down of the swan,
Is the cheek, is the lip, is the eye,
Is the smile, of my sweet little Anne.
(James Hurdis)
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