Poems you ought to know . l6o LIFE. BY MES. A. L. BARBAULD. Anna Letitla Barbauld, the daughter of the Rev. John Aiken, wasbom at Kllworth-Harcourt, in Leicestershire, 1743, She married the Barbauld. A poet as well as an essayist, she wrotePoems, Hymns in Prose for Children, The Female Spectator, andEighteen Hundred and Eleven. She died at Stoke-Newington in Lifel I know not what thou art,But know that thou and I must part;And when, or how, or where we metI own to me s a secret yet. Life! weve been long togetherThrough pleasant and through clou^X weather;Tis hard to part w

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Poems you ought to know . l6o LIFE. BY MES. A. L. BARBAULD. Anna Letitla Barbauld, the daughter of the Rev. John Aiken, wasbom at Kllworth-Harcourt, in Leicestershire, 1743, She married the Barbauld. A poet as well as an essayist, she wrotePoems, Hymns in Prose for Children, The Female Spectator, andEighteen Hundred and Eleven. She died at Stoke-Newington in Lifel I know not what thou art,But know that thou and I must part;And when, or how, or where we metI own to me s a secret yet. Life! weve been long togetherThrough pleasant and through clou^X weather;Tis hard to part when friends are dear—Perhaps t will cost a sigh, a tear;Then steal away, give little thine own time;Say not Good night, but in somebrighter climeBid me Good morning. i6i

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