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THE MOTHER	A
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There was a worthy but a simple Pair	B
Who nursed a Daughter fairest of the fair	B
Sons they had lost and she alone remain'd	C
Heir to the kindness they had all obtain'd	C
Heir to the fortune they design'd for all	D
Nor had th' allotted portion then been small	D
And now by fate enrich'd with beauty rare	B
They watch'd their treasure with peculiar care	B
The fairest features they could early trace	E
And blind with love saw merit in her face	E
Saw virtue wisdom dignity and grace	E
And Dorothea from her infant years	F
Gain'd all her wishes from their pride or fears	F
She wrote a billet and a novel read	G
And with her fame her vanity was fed	G
Each word each look each action was a cause	H
For flattering wonder and for fond applause	I
She rode or danced and ever glanced around	J
Seeking for praise and smiling when she found	J
The yielding pair to her petitions gave	K
An humble friend to be a civil slave	K
Who for a poor support herself resign'd	L
To the base toil of a dependant mind	L
By nature cold our Heiress stoop'd to art	M
To gain the credit of a tender heart	M
Hence at her door must suppliant paupers stand	N
To bless the bounty of her beauteous hand	N
And now her education all complete	O
She talk'd of virtuous love and union sweet	O
She was indeed by no soft passion moved	P
But wished with all her soul to be beloved	Q
Here on the favour'd beauty Fortune smiled	R
Her chosen Husband was a man so mild	R
So humbly temper'd so intent to please	S
It quite distress'd her to remain at ease	S
Without a cause to sigh without pretence to tease	S
She tried his patience on a thousand modes	T
And tried it not upon the roughest roads	T
Pleasure she sought and disappointed sigh'd	U
For joys she said 'to her alone denied '	-
And she was sure 'her parents if alive	V
Would many comforts for their child contrive '	-
The gentle Husband bade her name him one	W
'No that ' she answered 'should for her be done	W
How could she say what pleasures were around	J
But she was certain many might be found '	-
'Would she some seaport Weymouth Scarborough	X
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grace '	-
'He knew she hated every watering place '	-
'The town ' 'What now 'twas empty joyless	T
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dull '	-
'In winter ' 'No she liked it worse when full '	-
She talk'd of building 'Would she plan a room '	-
'No she could live as he desired in gloom '	-
'Call then our friends and neighbours ' 'He might	Y
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call	D
And they might come and fill his ugly hall	D
A noisy vulgar set he knew she scorn'd them all '	-
'Then might their two dear girls the time employ	Z
And their Improvement yield a solid joy '	-
'Solid indeed and heavy oh the bliss	T
Of teaching letters to a lisping miss '	-
'My dear my gentle Dorothea say	T
Can I oblige you ' 'You may go away '	-
Twelve heavy years this patient soul sustain'd	C
This wasp's attacks and then her praise obtain'd	C
Graved on a marble tomb where he at peace	T
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remain'd	C
Two daughters wept their loss the one a child	R
With a plain face strong sense and temper mild	R
Who keenly felt the Mother's angry taunt	A2
'Thou art the image of thy pious Aunt '	-
Long time had Lucy wept her slighted face	T
And then began to smile at her disgrace	T
Her father's sister who the world had seen	B2
Near sixty years when Lucy saw sixteen	B2
Begg'd the plain girl the gracious Mother smiled	R
And freely gave her grieved but passive child	R
And with her elder born the beauty bless'd	C2
This parent rested if such minds can rest	C2
No miss her waxen babe could so admire	D2
Nurse with such care or with such pride attire	A
They were companions meet with equal mind	L
Bless'd with one love and to one point inclined	L
Beauty to keep adorn increase and guard	E2
Was their sole care and had its full reward	F2
In rising splendour with the one it reign'd	C
And in the other was by care sustain'd	C
The daughter's charms increased the parent's yet	G2
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remain'd	C
Leave we these ladies to their daily care	B
To see how meekness and discretion fare	B
A village maid unvex'd by want or love	H2
Could not with more delight than Lucy move	I2
The village lark high mounted in the spring	J2
Could not with purer joy than Lucy sing	J2
Her cares all light her pleasures all sincere	K2
Her duty joy and her companion dear	K2
In tender friendship and in true respect	L2
Lived Aunt and Niece no flattery no neglect	L2
They read walk'd visited together pray'd	M2
Together slept the matron and the maid	M2
There was such goodness such pure nature seen	B2
In Lucy's looks a manner so serene	B2
Such harmony in motion speech and air	B
That without fairness she was more than fair	B
Had more than beauty in each speaking grace	T
That lent their cloudless glory to the face	T
Where mild good sense in placid looks were shown	N2
And felt in every bosom but her own	N2
The one presiding feature in her mind	L
Was the pure meekness of a will resign'd	L
A tender spirit freed from all pretence	T
Of wit and pleased in mild benevolence	T
Bless'd in protecting fondness she reposed	L
With every wish indulged though undisclosed	L
But love like zephyr on the limpid lake	O2
Was now the bosom of the maid to shake	O2
And in that gentle mind a gentle strife to make	O2
Among their chosen friends a favoured few	P2
The aunt and niece a youthful Rector knew	P2
Who though a younger brother might address	T
A younger sister fearless of success	T
His friends a lofty race their native pride	L
At first display'd and their assent denied	L
But pleased such virtues and such love to trace	T
They own'd she would adorn the loftiest race	T
The Aunt a mother's caution to supply	Q2
Had watch'd the youthful priest with jealous eye	Q2
And anxious for her charge had view'd unseen	B2
The cautious life that keeps the conscience clean	B2
In all she found him all she wish'd to find	L
With slight exception of a lofty mind	L
A certain manner that express'd desire	A
To be received as brother to the 'Squire	A
Lucy's meek eye had beam'd with many a tear	A
Lucy's soft heart had beat with many a fear	A
Before he told although his looks she thought	L
Had oft confess'd that he her favour sought	L
But when he kneel'd she wish'd him not to kneel	R2
And spoke the fears and hopes that lovers feel	R2
When too the prudent aunt herself confess'd	L
Her wishes on the gentle youth would rest	L
The maiden's eye with tender passion beam'd	L
She dwelt with fondness on the life she schemed	L
The household cares the soft and lasting ties	T
Of love with all his binding charities	T
Their village taught consoled assisted fed	L
Till the young zealot tears of pleasure shed	L
But would her Mother Ah she fear'd it wrong	S2
To have indulged these forward hopes so long	S2
Her mother loved but was not used to grant	L
Favours so freely as her gentle aunt	L
Her gentle aunt with smiles that angels wear	A
Dispell'd her Lucy's apprehensive tear	A
Her prudent foresight the request had made	L
To one whom none could govern few persuade	L
She doubted much if one in earnest woo'd	L
A girl with not a single charm endued	L
The Sister's nobler views she then declared	L
And what small sum for Lucy could be spared	L
'If more than this the foolish priest requires	T
Tell him ' she wrote ' to check his vain desires '	-
At length with many a cold expression mix'd	L
With many a sneer on girls so fondly fix'd	L
There came a promise should they not repent	L
But take with grateful minds the portion meant	L
And wait the Sister's day the Mother might	L
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consent	L
And here might pitying hope o'er truth prevail	T2
Or love o'er fortune we would end our tale	T2
For who more bless'd than youthful pair removed	L
From fear of want by mutual friends approved	L
Short time to wait and in that time to live	V
With all the pleasures hope and fancy give	U2
Their equal passion raised on just esteem	V2
When reason sanctions all that love can dream	V2
Yes reason sanctions what stern fate denies	T
The early prospect in the glory dies	T
As the soft smiles on dying infants play	T
In their mild features and then pass away	T
The Beauty died ere she could yield her hand	L
In the high marriage by the Mother plann'd	L
Who grieved indeed but found a vast relief	W2
In a cold heart that ever warr'd with grief	W2
Lucy was	T

George Crabbe

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