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Descriptive as well as commemorative of a place
belonging to the eldest Brother of the Author's
Father; a place in which were spent many of
the happiest Hours of his Youth.
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SONNET LVIII. Descriptive as well as commemorative of a place belonging to the eldest Brother of the Author's Father; a place in which were spent many of the happiest Hours of his Youth.
19th Oct. 1807.
Beloved spot, ere sleep mine eyes did close
On last night's pillow, thy remembered scene,
Thy shrubbery, avenue, and daisied green,
Thy teeming garden, farm, and orchard rose
With many a thought of what I once had been!
What beauty, and what joy didst thou disclose!
What hopes, what loves, what friendships, and what woes!
What tide of life thy busy range has seen!
Now silent all, deserted! Memory's thought
Can never from that moment be estrang'd,
When the lov'd progeny, in order rang'd,
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Six graceful forms the hand of death hath chang'd,
And to thy once gay bowers are fear and sorrow brought.
The Uncle and Aunt of the Author had sixteen children, seven sons and nine daughters, and most of them so far remarkable for beauty of person, that, when collected together, the family groupe probably could scarcely be rivalled in that respect. The Author once in his life saw each individual of them marshalled according to their age:—it is to this circumstance, and to the subsequent death of six of the family, all unexpectedly, and in quick succession one after the other, carried off in the bloom of life, that the latter part of the Sonnet alludes.
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