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.
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- 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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