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BONNY sweet-marjoram was in flower,

The pinks had come with their spices

sweet;

Thro' the village sounded the Sabbath-bell,

And the reverent people flocked down the

street.

Little Elizabeth, prim and pale,

A decorous little Puritan maid,

Walked soberly up the meeting-house hill,

With a look on her face as if she prayed.

Her catechism was in her hand,

Unvexed was she by the scholar's art;

Her simple lesson she simply learned,

And loved the Father with all her heart.

Her little kerchief was white as snow,

Like a rose she looked in her Sunday gown