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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Moira O’Neill1864–1955

Beauty’s a Flower

YOUTH’S for an hour,

Beauty’s a flower,

But love is the jewel that wins the world.

Youth’s for an hour, an’ the taste o’ life is sweet,

Ailes was a girl that stepped on two bare feet;

In all my days I never seen the one as fair as she,

I’d have lost my life for Ailes, an’ she never cared for me.

Beauty’s a flower, an’ the days o’ life are long,

There’s little knowin’ who may live to sing another song;

For Ailes was the fairest, but another is my wife,

An’ Mary—God be good to her!—is all I love in life.

Youth’s for an hour,

Beauty’s a flower,

But love is the jewel that wins the world.