Bid Adieu to Maidenhood
Read 'Bid Adieu to Maidenhood' by 'James Joyce' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Bid Adieu to Maidenhood by James Joyce
Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,
Bid adieu to girlish days,
Happy Love is come to woo
Thee and woo thy girlish ways—
The zone that doth become thee fair,
The snood upon thy yellow hair,
When thou hast heard his name upon
The bugles of the cherubim
Begin thou softly to unzone
Thy girlish bosom unto him
And softly to undo the snood
That is the sign of maidenhood.
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