BID ADIEU TO GIRLISH DAYS

by: James Joyce (1882-1941)

      ID adieu, adieu, adieu,
      Bid adieu to girlish days,
      Happy Love is come to woo
      Thee and woo thy girlish ways--
      The zone that doth become thee fair,
      The snood upon thy yellow hair.
       
      When thou hast heard his name upon
      The bugles of the cherubim
      Begin thou softly to unzone
      Thy girlish bosom unto him
      And softly to undo the snood
      That is the sign of maidenhood.

'Bid adieu to girlish days' is reprinted from Chamber Music. James Joyce. London: Elkin Mathews, 1907.

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