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Poem by James Joyce


Chamber Music. 11. Bid Adieu, Adieu, Adieu


Bid 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. 



James Joyce


James Joyce's other poems:
  1. Chamber Music. 33. Now, O Now, in This Brown Land
  2. A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
  3. Chamber Music. 4. When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven
  4. Chamber Music. 6. I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be
  5. Lament for the Yeomen


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