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ADDRESSED	A
TO MY NEPHEW	B
ATHANASE C L COQUEREL	C
ON HIS WEDDING DAY	D
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CHILD of my heart while others hail	C
This festive morn when joys prevail	C
With careless wishes they may last	E
Spite of all annals of the past	E
As if for thee alone secure	F
Their fleeting nature would endure	F
With roses strewing all thy way	D
And life were but a bridal day	D
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For me by pensive thoughts opprest	D
The future fills my anxious breast	D
And flowers that fade and joys that flee	C
Are not the things I ask for thee	C
My heart for thee has learn'd to prove	G
The throbbings of a mother's love	H
Since on thy cradle fell the tear	I
That mourn'd a sister's early bier	J
And sure that angel's sainted prayer	I
Has shed sweet influence o'er my care	I
To sorrow doomed in all the rest	D
And only in her children blest	D
While now you sign with hope elate	D
The civic register of fate	D
Or at the holy altar bow	K
To ratify the plighted vow	K
Which made aright or breath'd amiss	L
Includes all future woe or bliss	L
While kneeling youth and weeping beauty	C
Hear the grave ritual of their duty	C
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And the stern rubrick well approve	G
That charges to be true to love	H
This compact that for ever binds	M
In holy links two kindred minds	M
Their happiness the mutual barter	N
This solemn league we'll call a CHARTER	N
Th' allusion never can be wrong	O
White omens to the name belong	O
Palladium that has all withstood	D
And harbinger of boundless good	D
And ever may its hallow'd law	C
Your willing hearts together draw	C
Ah may no ultra thirst of power	N
Embitter life's domestic hour	N
No principles of feudal sway	D
Teach without loving to obey	D
The heart such joyless homage slights	P
And wedlock claims its Bill of Rights	P
May you to Virtue nobly just	D
Disdain the whisper of mistrust	D
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Your truth her dark police may brave	Q
Made for the tyrant and the slave	Q
May Discord pass with sullen tread	D
Far from the threshold of your shed	D
With accents that on harshness border	N
And words that love would call to order	N
Or veto he would pine to hear	J
Protesting only by a tear	I
Nor when true fondness with submisison	R
Her right asserting of petition	R
Shall meekly hint at some abuse	S
Or some reform of gen'ral use	S
Unheeding all that she may say	D
Pass to the order of the day	D
Nor bidding every blessing fade	D
Let Jealousy your peace invade	D
Whose shadow clings to all that's dear	T
And adds the length'ning shapes of fear	T
Whose mind with sickly colours ting'd	D
Discerns in all the code infring'd	D
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Reads violations in the eye	U
And marks the treason of a sigh	U
Or loads a tear with false aspersion	R
Mistaking sorrow for aversion	R
Or construes into acts of guile	C
The tender pleadings of a smile	C
Condemns unheard with ultra fury	C
Nor suffers love to call a jury	C
Where innocence her head uprears	D
Safe in a trial by her peers	D
Thus having ne'er from duty swerved	D
The faith of treaties well observ'd	D
When Time your destin'd lot shall fling	V
Of sorrow from his loaded wing	V
For you of other good bereft	D
Unchanging love will still be left	D
Not like the world he then will roam	W
But rest the morning star of home	W
Not yours their bitter fate who know	R
That agony of lonely woe	R
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An altered heart was bound to share	I
Nor find defence nor charter there	I
For you to every duty true	B
The Charter held in rev'rence due	B
Each tender clause shall habit seal	C
With no suggestion of repeal	C
Firm to the law of true election	R
And treating change with stern rejection	R
Though time the graceful form has worn	R
To which fidelity was sworn	R
For not alone with blooming youth	X
Is made that league of lasting truth	X
The compact sign'd with beauty now	R
Includes wan age with wrinkled brow	R
With tresses grey with visage pale	C
And eyes whose liquid lustre fail	C
For then the hand that shrivell'd thing	V
Shall still display the nuptial ring	V
Pledge of your faith and cherish'd token	R
Of vows through lengthen'd years unbroken	R
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When all that's left of passion's flame	Y
Is friendship with a dearer name	Y
Thus be the charter'd Code imprest	B
With all its statutes on your breast	B
No duty it enjoins forsook	Z
Till Time at length shall close the book	Z
And hope shall frame for worlds to come	A2
A treaty that survives the tomb	B2

Helen Maria Williams

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