Cheerfulness
There is a little maiden -
Who is she? Do you know? -
Who always has a welcome
Wherever she may go.
Her face is like the May-time,
Her voice is like a bird’s;
The sweetest of all music
Is in her lightsome words.
The loveliest of blossoms
Spring where her light foot treads.
And most delicious odors
She all around her sheds -
The breath of purple clover
Upon the breezy hills;
The smell of garden roses
And yellow daffodils.
Each spot she makes the brighter,
As if she were the sun.
And she is sought and cherished
And loved by every one;
By old folks and by children.
By lofty and by low.
Who is this little maiden?
Does anybody know?
You surely must have met her -
You certainly can guess;
What! must I introduce her?
Her name is Cheerfulness.
By Marian Douglas: as published in “The Myrtle” (24 January 1874), Volume 23, number 39
Marian Douglas is a pseudonym of Annie Douglas Green, later known as Annie Douglas Robinson, who was born on 12 January 1842 in Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States of America. She became a writer and a poet. Annie Douglas Robinson passed on at 71 years of age on 7 June 1913 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America.
There is a little maiden -
Who is she? Do you know? -
Who always has a welcome
Wherever she may go.
Her face is like the May-time,
Her voice is like a bird’s;
The sweetest of all music
Is in her lightsome words.
The loveliest of blossoms
Spring where her light foot treads.
And most delicious odors
She all around her sheds -
The breath of purple clover
Upon the breezy hills;
The smell of garden roses
And yellow daffodils.
Each spot she makes the brighter,
As if she were the sun.
And she is sought and cherished
And loved by every one;
By old folks and by children.
By lofty and by low.
Who is this little maiden?
Does anybody know?
You surely must have met her -
You certainly can guess;
What! must I introduce her?
Her name is Cheerfulness.
By Marian Douglas: as published in “The Myrtle” (24 January 1874), Volume 23, number 39
Marian Douglas is a pseudonym of Annie Douglas Green, later known as Annie Douglas Robinson, who was born on 12 January 1842 in Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States of America. She became a writer and a poet. Annie Douglas Robinson passed on at 71 years of age on 7 June 1913 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America.
