Quotes from Author unknown, 1800s

Why do the loveliest of earth The soonest pass away,— Like radiant flowers of summer birth, earliest to decay? They come, like angel forms, to bless Our visions for a while; They make our daily burden less, And half our tears beguile. They grow so deeply in our hearts, We make them idols there; Till God, in love, asunder parts, The ties which bind them here.

Lady-bird! Lady-bird! pretty one, stay: Come sit on my finger, so happy and gay. With me shall no mischief betide thee; No harm would I do thee, no foeman is near: I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee.

Fly back again, back again, Lady-bird dear! Thy neighbors will welcome thee merrily here...

Ladybird, Ladybird, whither fly you, To rest on the Rose or to sip of the Dew? Ladybird, Ladybird, come to my Bower; It will shade you from Sun and defend you from Shower.