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First Line: One came with light and laughing air
Last Line: And angels bow'd as she pass'd by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha


ONE came with light and laughing air,
And cheek like opening blossom,
Bright gems were twined amid her hair,
And glitter'd on her bosom,
And pearls and costly diamonds deck
Her round white arms and lovely neck.

Like summer's sky, with stars bedight,
The jewell'd robe around her,
And dazzling as the noon-tide light
The radiant zone that bound her, --
And pride and joy were in her eye,
And mortals bow'd as she pass'd by.

Another came -- o'er her sweet face
A pensive shade was stealing;
Yet there no grief of earth we trace,
But heaven-hallow'd feeling,
Which mourns the heart should ever stray
From the pure fount of Truth away.

Around her brow, as snow-drop fair,
The glossy tresses cluster,
Nor pearl, nor ornament was there,
Save the meek spirit's lustre; --
And faith and hope beam'd in her eye,
And angels bow'd as she pass'd by.





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