A Southern Girl

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Serious but smiling, stately and serene,
  And dreamier than a flower;
  A girl in whom all sympathies convene
  As perfumes in a bower;
  Through whom one feels what soul and heart may mean,
  And their resistless power.

  Eyes, that commune with the frank skies of truth,
  Where thought like starlight curls;
  Lips of immortal rose, where love and youth
  Nestle like two sweet pearls;
  Hair, that suggests the Bible braids of RUTH,
  Deeper than any girl's.

  When first I saw you, 't was as if within
  My soul took shape some song--
  Played by a master of the violin--
  A music pure and strong,
  That rapt my soul above all earthly sin
  To heights that know no wrong.

© Madison Julius Cawein