A form of youthful innocence,
With love, and grace, and beauty rife—
As erst, from ocean’s tossing foam,
Fair Venus sparkled into life.
Around her pale and placid brow,
By long and auburn ringlets hid,
A radiant flame ran circling,
And o’er her face a lustre shed.
Her eye, so full—a spirit nursed,
So blue—it seem’d a part of heaven,