Jesse Haney's Christmas poem, which was read at the Edwards family's 1859 Christmas party. Transcription: Was robing my thoughts in his azure hue, Making me discontented. And so as a means that foe to appal, On a spot on the mantel my eyes I let fall Where a black oval frame* hangs down by the wall: It worked like a charm dissolving my thrall And served as a spell my thoughts to recall From troubles purely invented For the wide-world over, all others above Some dozen or so are the faces I love; A shade on whose brows, a light in whose eyes, An arch of whose lips, whate ?er it implies, Whether
Jesse Haney's Christmas poem, which was read at the Edwards family's 1859 Christmas party. Transcription: Was robing my thoughts in his azure hue, Making me discontented. And so as a means that foe to appal, On a spot on the mantel my eyes I let fall Where a black oval frame* hangs down by the wall: It worked like a charm dissolving my thrall And served as a spell my thoughts to recall From troubles purely invented For the wide-world over, all others above Some dozen or so are the faces I love; A shade on whose brows, a light in whose eyes, An arch of whose lips, whate ?er it implies, Whether smiles it betoken or anger it prove This foolish old heart is as potent to move As a touch the sea-amemone. ? * Containing a daguerreotype of the present Edwards ? family, I mean those by the living Mrs E. [Sarah Edwards] with the heads of it. Excellent portraits most of them. When the picture came home, a year or more ago (it was a surprise birthday present to which I was privy) [Jesse] Haney testified a good deal of natural gratification and was savage at Mrs [Catharine] Potter ?s cackling inquisitiveness as to ?ǣWhich was the one [Sally Edwards]. ? She pitched, I ?m pretty sure, on Matty [Edwards], as the prettiest, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 201, December 1859 . December 1859. Haney, Jesse C., 1829-1901
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