TO A. H. B.

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H. Lavinia Baily

A "COMMENCEMENT" GREETING
With Portraits of Eminent Authors

Dear Hallam, with this trifling gift
 Best wishes now I send thee;
 Through all thy future life may joy
 And grace and peace attend thee.
May this the bright beginning be
 Of days love-crowned and royal;
 May griefs and faults and foes be few,
 Friends manifold and loyal.
May gems from authors such as these
 Store well thy mental coffer,
 But for thy heart's enrichment please
 Accept the love I offer.

1882

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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