SD161. Verse by James Graham-Clarke

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 312 (in part).

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April 1812

On the breaking up of a most agreeable

party at Cheltenham—April 1812—

Oh happy hours tho’ dark’d with pain,

Since never to return again;

For e’en should chance or Yielding fate,

Bring us together as of late,

Much changed, alas! Might be the scene

New friends, new objects step between,

Our youths decayed, our spirits fled,

Some even numbered with the dead,

With other woes too dire to tell,

Farewell, ye happy hours, farewell.

[James Graham-Clarke]

Answer to some Lines “On the breaking up of a most

Agreeable party at Cheltenahm—April 1812—[”]

Well may we sigh dear Sisters fair,

To see our joys all melt in Air;

Well may we sigh to say farewell—

To bliss too great for tongue to tell;

But mid our prospects gloomy scene

Thy friendships sunny ray is seen—

Oh! “twill be sweet with thee to say,

How laughed the hours now flown away!

And in the sad remembrance join

Our Mournful Melody with thine—

Revd. H. Parsons

Impromptu on Receiving the foregoing lines—

Pray what means this Pother

From Sister & Brother

About parting & bidding farewell,

Since ’tis sure we shall meet

And as old friends shall greet

Remembrance of joys loved so well—

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

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