To Margaret W----

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Title:     To Margaret W----
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

Margaret, in happy hour
Christen'd from that humble flower
Which we a daisy[1] call!
May thy pretty name-sake be
In all things a type of thee,
And image thee in all.

 

To Margaret W----

Like _it_ you show a modest face,
An unpretending native grace;--
The tulip, and the pink,
The china and the damask rose,
And every flaunting flower that blows,
In the comparing shrink.

Of lowly fields you think no scorn;
Yet gayest gardens would adorn,
And grace, wherever set.
Home-seated in your lonely bower,
Or wedded--a transplanted flower--
I bless you, Margaret!

EDMONTON, 8_th October_, 1834.

[Footnote 1: Marguerite, in French, signifies a daisy. [Note in _Athenaeum_.]]

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Charles Lamb's poem: To Margaret W----

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