First Advent of Love[443:2]

Linenotes:

Title] The Reproof and Reply (the alternative title is omitted) 1834.

Mary H——] Mary —— 1834, 1844.

Did lure the] Lured the wild F. O. 1834.

O fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind!
As Eve's first star thro' fleecy cloudlet peeping;
And sweeter than the gentle south-west wind.
O'er willowy meads, and shadow'd waters creeping,
And Ceres' golden fields;—the sultry hind
Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping.

? 1824.