Marmion . IMIWDICTIOX TO Shall friends alone and kindred mourn ;The thousand eyes his care had dried,Pour at his name a bitter tide ;And frequent falls the grateful dewFor benefits the world neer mortal charity dare claimThe Almightys attributed name,Inscribe above his mouldering clay, The widows shield, the orphans , though it wake thy sorrow, deemMy verse intrudes on this sad theme ;For sacred was the pen that wrote, Thy fathers friend forget thou not : And grateful title may I plead,For many a kindly word and deed,To bring my tribute to his grave : —Tis little —but tis all I

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Marmion . IMIWDICTIOX TO Shall friends alone and kindred mourn ;The thousand eyes his care had dried,Pour at his name a bitter tide ;And frequent falls the grateful dewFor benefits the world neer mortal charity dare claimThe Almightys attributed name,Inscribe above his mouldering clay, The widows shield, the orphans , though it wake thy sorrow, deemMy verse intrudes on this sad theme ;For sacred was the pen that wrote, Thy fathers friend forget thou not : And grateful title may I plead,For many a kindly word and deed,To bring my tribute to his grave : —Tis little —but tis all I Jiave. To thee, perchance, this rambling strainRecalls our summer walks again;When, doing naught,—and, to speak true,Not anxious to find aught to do, —The wild unbounded hills we ranged,While oft our talk its topic , desultorj^ as our way,Ranged, iinconfined, from grave to when it flagged, as oft will chance,No effort made to break its trance,We could right pleasantly pursueOur

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