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BIRTHDAY VERSES by THOMAS HOOD

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First Line: GOOD MORROW TO THE GOLDEN MORNING
Last Line: THEY HAVE LEARNED THAT LOOK OF MINE!
Subject(s): BIRTHDAYS; MOTHERS;

GOOD morrow to the golden morning,
Good morrow to the world's delight --
I've come to bless thy life's beginning,
Since it makes my own so bright!

I have brought no roses, sweetest,
I could find no flowers, dear, --
It was when all sweets were over
Thou wert born to bless the year.

But I've brought thee jewels, dearest,
In thy bonny locks to shine, --
And if love shows in their glances,
They have learned that look of mine!



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