261. EBB to Octavius Moulton-Barrett
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 46.
[Hope End]
[11 April 1827] [1]
Dwart Ode—
to Occyta.
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“These little lines are great to little boys”.
Pope.
The style
Should fit
The sub-
ject writ.
Philo-
sophy!
Gastro-
nomy!
Philol-
ogies
Conchol-
ogies!
Arter-
eot-
omy!
The Peer-
age! Bot-
tany!
Moral-
ities!
Law fal-
isies!
All that,
We know
May shine
in Pat-
ago-
nian line:
which, prop-
erly,
I drop
For thee!
Octa-
vius
and thus,
A lay,
Have brought
Thee now
As short
As thou!
or as your
ever affecte tho’
truly disgusting Ba
Address, on integral page: Mr Octavius Barrett.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Wellesley College.
1. His 3rd birthday. Manuscript dated in the hand of Mary Moulton-Barrett.
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