Poesy

To Frances S. Osgood

Thou wouldst be loved?--then let thy heartFrom its present pathway part not;Being everything which now thou art,Be nothing which thou art not.So with the world thy gentle ways,Thy grace, thy more than beauty,Shall be an endless theme of praise.And love a simple duty.

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