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MARK'D as the hours should be Fate bids us spend	A
With one illustrious or a cherish'd friend	A
Rich in the value of that double claim	B
Since Fame allots the friend a Poet's name	B
My 'Winter's Walk' asserts its right to live	C
Amongst the brightest thoughts my life can give	D
And leaves a track of light on Memory's way	E
Which oft shall gild the future Summer's day	E
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Gleam'd the red sun athwart the misty haze	F
Which veil'd the cold earth from its loving gaze	F
Feeble and sad as Hope in Sorrow's hour	G
But for THY soul it still had warmth and power	G
Not to its cheerless beauty wert thou blind	H
To the keen eye of thy poetic mind	H
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Beauty still lives tho' nature's flow'rets die	I
And wintry sunsets fade along the sky	I
And nought escaped thee as we stroll'd along	J
Nor changeful ray nor bird's faint chirping song	J
Bless'd with a fancy easily inspired	K
All was beheld and nothing unadmired	K
Not one of all God's blessings giv'n in vain	L
From the dim city to the clouded plain	L
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And many an anecdote of other times	M
Good earnest deeds quaint wit and polished rhymes	M
Many a sweet story of remembered years	N
Which thrilled the listening heart with unshed tears	O
Unweariedly thy willing tongue rehearsed	K
And made the hour seem brief as we conversed	K
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Ah who can e'er forget who once hath heard	K
The gentle charm that dwells in every word	K
Of thy calm converse In its kind allied	K
To some fair river's bright abundant tide	K
Whose silver gushing current onward goes	P
Fluent and varying yet with such repose	P
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As smiles even through the flashings of thy wit	K
In every eddy that doth ruffle it	K
Who can forget who at thy social board	K
Hath sat and seen the pictures richly stored	K
In all their tints of glory and of gloom	Q
Brightening the precincts of thy quiet room	Q
With busts and statues fall of that deep grace	R
Which modern hands have lost the skill to trace	R
Fragments of beauty perfect as thy song	J
On that sweet land to which they did belong	J
Th' exact and classic taste bv thee displayed	K
Not with a rich man's idle fond parade	K
Not with the pomp of some vain connoisseur	G
Proud of his bargains of his judgment sure	S
But with the feelings kind and sad of one	T
Who thro' far countries wandering hath gone	U
And brought away dear keepsakes to remind	K
His heart and home of all he left behind	K
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But wherefore these in feeble rhyme recal	V
Thy taste thy wit thy verse are known to all	V
Such things are for the World and therefore doth	W
The World speak of them loud and nothing loth	X
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To fancy that the talent stamped by Heaven	T
Is nought unless their echoed praise be given	T
A worthless ore not yet allowed to shine	Y
A diamond darkly buried in its mine	Y
These are thy daylight qualities whereon	Y
Beams the full lustre of their garish sun	Y
And the keen point of many a famed reply	V
Is what they would not 'willingly let die '	-
But by a holier light thy angel reads	Z
The unseen records of more gentle deeds	Z
And by a holier light thy angel sees	A2
The tear oft shed for humble miseries	A2
The alms dropp'd gently in the beggar's hand	K
Who in his daily poverty doth stand	K
Watching for kindness on thy pale calm brow	B2
Ignorant to whom he breathes his grateful vow	B2
Th' indulgent hour of kindness stol'n away	E
From the free leisure of thy well spent day	E
For some poor struggling Son of Genius bent	K
Under the weight of heart sick discontent	K
Whose prayer thou hearest mindful of the schemes	C2
Of thine own youth the hopes the fever dreams	C2
Of Fame and Glory which seemed hovering then	Y
Nor only seemed upon thy magic pen	Y
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And measuring not how much beneath thine own	Y
Is the sick mind thus pining to be known	Y
But only what a wealth of hope lies hushed	K
As in a grave when men like these are crushed	K
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And by that light's soft radiance I review	D2
Thy unpretending kindness calm and true	D2
Not to me only but in bitterest hours	E2
To one whom Heaven endowed with varied powers	E2
To one who died e'er yet my childish heart	K
Knew what Fame meant or Slander's fabled dart	K
Then was the laurel green upon his brow	B2
And they could flatter then who judge him now	B2
Who when the fickle breath of fortune changed	K
With equal falsehood held their love estranged	K
Nay like mean wolves from whelp hood vainly nurst	K
Tore at the easy hand that fed them first	K
Not so didst THOU the ties of friendship break	F2
Not so didst THOU the saddened man forsake	F2
And when at length he laid his dying head	K
On the hard rest of his neglected bed	K
He found tho' few or none around him came	B
Whom he had toiled for in his hour of Fame	B
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Though by his Prince unroyally forgot	K
And left to struggle with his altered lot	K
By sorrow weakened by disease unnerved	K
Faithful at least the friend he had not served	K
For the same voice essayed that hour to cheer	G2
Which now sounds welcome to his grandchild's ear	H2
And the same hand to aid that Life's decline	Y
Whose gentle clasp so late was linked in mine	Y

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

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