Chips, fragments and vestiges by Gail Hamilton collected and arranged by H. Augusta Dodge |
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TO MR. OWEN |
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TO MR. OWEN
Your excellent watch, my excellent friend,I restore to your fatherly hands,
And with it I pray you receive all the thanks
So gracious a token demands.
To atone for the sorrow its absence hath caused,
I am sure it will please you to know,
With eloquent lips, it hath pleaded your case,
And taught me to feel for your woe.
For if I have grown pale through my anxious care,
Of a property not my own,
And most truly rejoice in three days to give back
The beautiful, troublesome loan—
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And your sensitive conscience, knowing
That although you pay up every cent on your hands,
You never can cease to be Owen.
| Chips, fragments and vestiges by Gail Hamilton | |