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I	A
From Frederick Graham	B
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Mother I smile at your alarms	C
I own indeed my Cousin's charms	C
But like all nursery maladies	D
Love is not badly taken twice	E
Have you forgotten Charlotte Hayes	F
My playmate in the pleasant days	F
At Knatchley and her sister Anne	G
The twins so made on the same plan	G
That one wore blue the other white	H
To mark them to their father's sight	H
And how at Knatchley harvesting	I
You bade me kiss her in the ring	I
Like Anne and all the others You	J
That never of my sickness knew	J
Will laugh yet had I the disease	D
And gravely if the signs are these	D
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As ere the Spring has any power	K
The almond branch all turns to flower	K
Though not a leaf is out so she	L
The bloom of life provoked in me	L
And hard till then and selfish I	A
Was thenceforth nought but sanctity	L
And service life was mere delight	H
In being wholly good and right	H
As she was just without a slur	K
Honouring myself no less than her	K
Obeying in the loneliest place	M
Ev'n to the slightest gesture grace	M
Assured that one so fair so true	J
He only served that was so too	J
For me hence weak towards the weak	N
No more the unnested blackbird's shriek	N
Startled the light leaved wood on high	A
Wander'd the gadding butterfly	A
Unscared by my flung cap the bee	L
Rifling the hollyhock in glee	L
Was no more trapp'd with his own flower	K
And for his honey slain Her power	K
From great things even to the grass	O
Through which the unfenced footways pass	O
Was law and that which keeps the law	P
Cherubic gaiety and awe	Q
Day was her doing and the lark	R
Had reason for his song the dark	R
In anagram innumerous spelt	J
Her name with stars that throbb'd and felt	J
'Twas the sad summit of delight	J
To wake and weep for her at night	J
She turn'd to triumph or to shame	S
The strife of every childish game	S
The heart would come into my throat	J
At rosebuds howsoe'er remote	J
In opposition or consent	J
Each thing or person or event	J
Or seeming neutral howsoe'er	K
All in the live electric air	K
Awoke took aspect and confess'd	J
In her a centre of unrest	J
Yea stocks and stones within me bred	J
Anxieties of joy and dread	J
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O bright apocalyptic sky	A
O'erarching childhood Far and nigh	A
Mystery and obscuration none	T
Yet nowhere any moon or sun	T
What reason for these sighs What hope	U
Daunting with its audacious scope	U
The disconcerted heart affects	V
These ceremonies and respects	V
Why stratagems in everything	I
Why why not kiss her in the ring	I
'Tis nothing strange that warriors bold	J
Whose fierce forecasting eyes behold	J
The city they desire to sack	W
Humbly begin their proud attack	W
By delving ditches two miles off	X
Aware how the fair place would scoff	X
At hasty wooing but O child	J
Why thus approach thy playmate mild	J
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One morning when it flush'd my thought	J
That what in me such wonder wrought	J
Was call'd in men and women love	Y
And sick with vanity thereof	Y
I saying loud I love her told	J
My secret to myself behold	J
A crisis in my mystery	K
For suddenly I seem'd to be	K
Whirl'd round and bound with showers of threads	Z
As when the furious spider sheds	Z
Captivity upon the fly	A
To still his buzzing till he die	A
Only with me the bonds that flew	J
Enfolding thrill'd me through and through	J
With bliss beyond aught heaven can have	A2
And pride to dream myself her slave	B2
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A long green slip of wilder'd land	J
With Knatchley Wood on either hand	J
Sunder'd our home from hers This day	J
Glad was I as I went her way	J
I stretch'd my arms to the sky and sprang	C2
O'er the elastic sod and sang	C2
I love her love her to an air	K
Which with the words came then and there	K
And even now when I would know	D2
All was not always dull and low	D2
I mind me awhile of the sweet strain	E2
Love taught me in that lonely lane	E2
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Such glories fade with no more mark	R
Than when the sunset dies to dark	R
They pass the rapture and the grace	M
Ineffable their only trace	M
A heart which having felt no less	F2
Than pure and perfect happiness	G2
Is duly dainty of delight	J
A patient poignant appetite	J
For pleasures that exceed so much	H2
The poor things which the world calls such	H2
That when these lure it then you may	J
The lion with a wisp of hay	J
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That Charlotte whom we scarcely knew	J
From Anne but by her ribbons blue	J
Was loved Anne less than look'd at shows	I2
That liking still by favour goes	I2
This Love is a Divinity	K
And holds his high election free	K
Of human merit or let's say	J
A child by ladies call'd to play	J
But careless of their becks and wiles	J2
Till seeing one who sits and smiles	J2
Like any else yet only charms	C
He cries to come into her arms	C
Then for my Cousins fear me not	J
None ever loved because he ought	J
Fatal were else this graceful house	K2
So full of light from ladies' brows	L2
There's Mary Heaven in her appears	M2
Like sunshine through the shower's bright tears	N2
Mildred's of Earth yet happier far	K
Than most men's thoughts of Heaven are	K
But for Honoria Heaven and Earth	O2
Seal'd amity in her sweet birth	O2
The noble Girl With whom she talks	P2
She knights first with her smile she walks	P2
Stands dances to such sweet effect	J
Alone she seems to move erect	J
The brightest and the chastest brow	K
Rules o'er a cheek which seems to show	D2
That love as a mere vague suspense	Q2
Of apprehensive innocence	R2
Perturbs her heart love without aim	S
Or object like the sunlit flame	S
That in the Vestals' Temple glow'd	J
Without the image of a god	J
And this simplicity most pure	K
She sets off with no less allure	K
Of culture subtly skill'd to raise	F
The power the pride and mutual praise	F
Of human personality	K
Above the common sort so high	A
It makes such homely souls as mine	S2
Marvel how brightly life may shine	S2
How you would love her Even in dress	F2
She makes the common mode express	F2
New knowledge of what's fit so well	T2
'Tis virtue gaily visible	U2
Nay but her silken sash to me	K
Were more than all morality	K
Had not the old sweet feverous ill	V2
Left me the master of my will	V2
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So Mother feel at rest and please	D
To send my books on board With these	D
When I go hence all idle hours	W2
Shall help my pleasures and my powers	W2
I've time you know to fill my post	J
And yet make up for schooling lost	J
Through young sea service They all speak	N
German with ease and this with Greek	N
Which Dr Churchill thought I knew	J
And history which I fail'd in too	J
Will stop a gap I somewhat dread	J
After the happy life I've led	J
With these my friends and sweet 'twill be	K
To abridge the space from them to me	K
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II	A
From Mrs Graham	B
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My Child Honoria Churchill sways	F
A double power through Charlotte Hayes	F
In minds to first love's memory pledged	J
The second Cupid's born full fledged	J
I saw and trembled for the day	J
When you should see her beauty gay	J
And pure as apple blooms that show	D2
Outside a blush and inside snow	D2
Her high and touching elegance	R2
Of order'd life as free as chance	X2
Ah haste from her bewitching side	J
No friend for you far less a bride	J
But warning from a hope so wild	J
I wrong you Yet this know my Child	J
He that but once too nearly hears	Y2
The music of forefended spheres	M2
Is thenceforth lonely and for all	Z2
His days like one who treads the Wall	Z2
Of China and on this hand sees	D
Cities and their civilities	D
And on the other lions Well	T2
Your rash reply I thus foretell	T2
Good is the knowledge of what's fair	K
Though bought with temporal despair	K
Yes good for one but not for two	J
Will it content a wife that you	J
Should pine for love in love's embrace	D
Through having known a happier grace	D
And break with inward sighs your rest	J
Because though good she's not the best	J
You would you think be just and kind	J
And keep your counsel You will find	J
You cannot such a secret keep	A3
'Twill out like murder in your sleep	A3
A touch will tell it though for pride	J
She may her bitter knowledge hide	J
And while she accepts love's make believe	B3
You'll twice despise what you'd deceive	B3
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I	A