Henry Livingston, Jr.
Henry Livingston's Poetry



Hail! pride of each lass



& the wish of each swain



The sweetest & loveliest girl on the plain!



The graces & Muses your footsteps attend--



Each shepherd a lover,



each maiden a friend.



Continue dear nymph, as ever you've been



Of beauty and merit's fair empire, the Queen;



Of pain or misfortune the names only know,



And the rose of content in your path ever grow.



Bright rise the young year newly born eighty-nine



On the girl I would give all the globe to call mine:



The bounties of fortune around her be strow'n



For goodness and beauty sweet girl are thy own.







Manuscript Phonemes
To Miss -- on the commencement of 1789


Hail! pride of each lass & the wish of each swain
The sweetest & loveliest girl on the plain!
The graces & Muses your footsteps attend--
Each shepherd a lover, each maiden a friend.

Continue dear nymph, as ever you've been
Of beauty and merit's fair empire, the Queen;
Of pain or misfortune the names only know,
And the rose of content in your path ever grow.

Bright rise the young year newly born eighty-nine
On the girl I would give all the globe to call mine:
The bounties of fortune around her be strow'n
For goodness and beauty sweet girl are thy own.








        
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