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Verses, Fragments, and Notes [by William Allingham]

Allingham, William (1824-1889)

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TO THE FELLOW TRAVELLER

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[Childlike, I love that skylark's trills]

[In tears of blood, if such might be]

['Tis true we cannot keep the heights]

[Low men who live by labour of their hands]

ON A BLACKTHORN WALKING-STICK

[Have I cause to be afraid?]

[In evil forget not good]

[I will not be a critic where I love.]

[I never fancied I could lose]

[The moon upon the cornfield shone]

[Who that, even in a dream]

[I can be haughty with my brother-kind]

LORD BLANK: A BIOGRAPHY

[I saw a man go by to-day; O when we were at school]

[The Whiting Society passes its time]

WRECK OF THE “HENRIETTA CHARLOTTE”

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The Weathercock

Sufferer to Comforter

The Little Town

An Irish Priest

The Dance of Despair

On a Certain Mansion

To Certain Folk.

Written on a Fan

Epitaph (by the Departed)

Epitaph (by the Departed)

A Prolific Author

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WRECK OF THE “HENRIETTA CHARLOTTE”

Wrack versus Wreck

(Circa 1858)

The wreck directly reached the rock
And wronged the Rector's wrack,
The Rector rushed to wreak the wrongs
Of wrack upon the wreck:
Can rectitude direct the Rector,
Recklessly to wreak
Upon the wretched wreck, the wrongs
Of Rector's wracky rock?

These lines were written on the loss of a trading vessel at Bally-shannon Bar, wrecked on a portion of the shore over which the Rector claimed the rights of sea-weed: he sued the owner of the unfortunate vessel for damages—without success.