Where art thou gone, maiden fair
\nThat I as mine desired to be
\nBut I was as the army last time we met
\nAnd fair as the moon, you looked at me<\/p>\n
Before leaving, and I you departing saw
\nWent down the garden of life, where planted in my heart
\nTo see what had bloomed, were they as I thought they’d be
\nWhile those chariots of Amminadib brought us apart<\/p>\n
I stayed when I was, who had not traveled
\nThough I have since stood on a Shulem Isle
\nSo near and yet so far from thee
\nAs I remember a blossoming smile<\/p>\n
Oh, sing an elegy for Cupid shot down
\nBy a passing anger, and an armies frown!<\/p>\n
Where art thou gone, maiden fair That I as mine desired to be But I was as the army last time we met And fair as the moon, you looked at me Before leaving, and I you departing saw Went down the garden of life, where planted in my heart …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[18,416,417,419,418],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweetest-smile-poems","tag-love-poem","tag-solomon","tag-song-of-solomon","tag-sweetest-smile","tag-wisdom-of-solomon","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-49","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":477,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lady-of-the-sweetest-smile\/","url_meta":{"origin":257,"position":0},"title":"Lady of the Sweetest Smile","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th February 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pSu4D22mUyk I Lady of the sweetest smile In this town and round for many a mile Laughter, fun, and all with grace, The Mona Lisa should have had your face. 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