Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. Sonnet Sequence on the Shepherds at the Crib (continued)

   

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   X. The Shepard endeavors to describe her smile.
   Her face breathed a sweetness, a goodness, an ineffable tenderness. But what went to my very soul was her ravishing smile - The little flower
   We might indeed describe her gentle beating, on the queenlike dignity where with she walks; or ho her glance sustains the soul despairing, or the gracious soothing way in which she talks; but one thing there is that doth all words elude, which doth defy all arts of human style which is with love fraught, and beatitude - and thats the wonderous beauty of her smile. It’s gentle as a lily in a stream; it glistens oer her cheeks and in her eye; it’s like a [?] in the warm sunbeam; it’s soft and tender as an April sky. You feel an angel looks on you the while, that beauteous maiden lends on you a smile.

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Timothy Hurley