THE WATER LILY. 
G3 
ILLUSTRATION OF THE SENTIMENT. 
Innocent maid and snow-white flower, 
Well are ye pair’d in your opening hour; 
Thus should the pure and the lovely meet, 
Stainless with stainless and sweet with sweet.. 
White as those leaves, just blown apart, 
Are the folds of thy own pure heart. 
Guilty passion and cankering care 
Never have left their traces there. 
Yet, as thy smiling years depart, 
Keep that white and innocent heart. 
