The Gospel Miracles In A Series of Poetical Sketches: With Illustrative Conversations. By Richard Mant |
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TO A--- C--- M---
RECOVERING FROM LONG AND SEVERE ILLNESS |
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TO A--- C--- M--- RECOVERING FROM LONG AND SEVERE ILLNESS
Jan. 1832.
I bade for her, my nearest, dearest friend,
Preluding notes of salutation rise:
What hinders, that from kindred sympathies
My closing strains to thee, Alicia, send
A brother's greeting? She will pleas'd commend
The verse, that flowing from affection tries
To give thee pleasure, and the charities
Fraternal with connubial thus to blend.
Be then this lay of valediction thine!
That 'mid the pains, wherewith high God hath prov'd
Long while thy patient spirit, verse of mine
Hath ever from thy couch a thorn remov'd,
Glads me; and prompts me thus thy name to join
With those thou lovest, sister well belov'd!
Preluding notes of salutation rise:
What hinders, that from kindred sympathies
My closing strains to thee, Alicia, send
A brother's greeting? She will pleas'd commend
The verse, that flowing from affection tries
To give thee pleasure, and the charities
Fraternal with connubial thus to blend.
Be then this lay of valediction thine!
That 'mid the pains, wherewith high God hath prov'd
Long while thy patient spirit, verse of mine
Hath ever from thy couch a thorn remov'd,
Glads me; and prompts me thus thy name to join
With those thou lovest, sister well belov'd!
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