We Were Two Pretty Babes, The Youngest She

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Title:     We Were Two Pretty Babes, The Youngest She
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

(_1795. Text of 1818_)

We were two pretty babes, the youngest she,
The youngest, and the loveliest far, I ween,
And INNOCENCE her name. The time has been,
We two did love each other's company;
Time was, we two had wept to have been apart.
But when by show of seeming good beguil'd,
I left the garb and manners of a child,
And my first love for man's society,
Defiling with the world my virgin heart--
My loved companion dropped a tear, and fled,
And hid in deepest shades her awful head.
Beloved, who shall tell me where thou art--
In what delicious Eden to be found--
That I may seek thee the wide world around?

[The end]
Charles Lamb's poem: We Were Two Pretty Babes, The Youngest She

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