Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, <br />Bid adieu to girlish days, <br />Happy Love is come to woo <br />Thee and woo thy girlish ways— <br />The zone that doth become thee fair, <br />The snood upon thy yellow hair, <br /> <br />When thou hast heard his name upon <br />The bugles of the cherubim <br />Begin thou softly to unzone <br />Thy girlish bosom unto him <br />And softly to undo the snood <br />That is the sign of maidenhood.<br /><br />James Joyce<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bid-adieu-to-maidenhood/
