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CHARACTERS: MARY HOLLAND ENFIELD, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: As nurs'd by warmer suns, and milder showers
Last Line: Like them be happy, and like them be lov'd!
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia


As nurs'd by warmer suns, and milder showers
In fair Italia's vales the orange blows;
Heavy at once with fruit, and gay with flowers,
The richness of the year she all together shows;

Thus, e'er the blossom of her youth is o'er,
Two smiling infants grace Maria's side;
More lovely fruit than all Pomona's store,
Her ruddy orchards, or her golden pride!

Less fair, twin apples blushing on a bough,
On whose smooth cheek the ripening summer glows,
Or those which broke fleet Atalanta's vow,
Or that, from whence celestial strife arose.

Long may the stock, and long the fruit remain,
May their young fondness with their years increase,
Nor ever words unkind, or bitter pain
Wound the sweet bosom of domestic peace.

And when late time the mother's bloom must fade,
And when the sire shall be by fate remov'd,
May these their name, their form, their virtues spread,
Like them be happy, and like them be lov'd!





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