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VIIIIN MEMORY OF CHARLES WELLS
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IN MEMORY OF CHARLES WELLS
AND JOSEPH SEVERN,
DYING IN 1879
Severn, by a few pictures of merit and interest: Wells, by his early poem, Joseph and his Brethren;—seemed to promise work worthly the friends of Keats.
Friends of young Keats! Names ne'er to be forgot,
While his,—Theocritus of our isle, and more,—
Is great among our great ones,—we deplore
Not that, in one sad sunless year, the lot
While his,—Theocritus of our isle, and more,—
Is great among our great ones,—we deplore
Not that, in one sad sunless year, the lot
Of Atropos calls ye to the better spot
Where Virtue triumphs, and the strife is o'er;
But that, with you, the living link that bore
Our souls across the years to him, is not.
Where Virtue triumphs, and the strife is o'er;
But that, with you, the living link that bore
Our souls across the years to him, is not.
Friends of young Keats!—If, on earth's hamper'd stage,
Ye kept not all the promise of your prime,
Yet on each forehead fell the happy ray
Ye kept not all the promise of your prime,
Yet on each forehead fell the happy ray
Of genius: and we watch'd your honour'd age
As of those blest ones, who, in earlier time,
Walk'd with Immortals on life's common way.
As of those blest ones, who, in earlier time,
Walk'd with Immortals on life's common way.
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