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Title: Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
Subjects: English poetry
Publisher: London : Sampson, Low, Son and Marston
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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<^ -^ fe^-^V^-. 4 THE HON. WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER. 1770—1834. Mr. Spencer wrote sonic of the finest Virs de Societi in ourlanguage ; nor can even France produce any more elegant, moregraceful, or more perfectly musical and finished. The shrewdauthors of The Rejected Addresses parodied this writersexaggerated compliments and extravagant adulation, but theycould not detract from his taste and sonsibilitv. W, C, ^ CO
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WIFE, ClllLDRF.N^ AND FRIFXD.S. When the black-lettered list to the gods was presented(The list of what fate for each mortal intends), At the long string of ills a kind goddess relented, And slipped in three blessings—wife, children, and friends. In vain surly Pluto maintained he was cheated.For justice divine could not compass its ends ; The scheme of mans penance he swore was defeated.For earth becomes heaven with—wife, children, and friends. If the stock of our bliss is in stranger hands vested,The fund ill secured oft in bankruptcy ends ; Hut the heart issues bills which are never protested.When drawn on the firm of—wife, children, and friends. Though valour still glows in his lifes dying embers.The death-wounded tar, who his colours defends. Drops a tear of regret as he dying remembers How blest was his home with—wife, children, and friends. The soldier whose deeds live immortal in story.Whom duty to far distant latitudes sends, With transport would barter whole ages of g

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