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    Or, the Feast of the Violets.

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    Canto Ii.—The Presentations And Bali,.

    Or for want of due reading * shall fail in due notice Of-some such delight of all earth ' s epiglottis , That when I am told what I ' ve done , I shall tear From my head , in pure anguish , whole masses of hair You will think it a barber ' s shop , all round my chair .

    And yet , when I vow that Til seize all occasion Of loading " the love" with my best reparation , My _" startling , _" " intense , " " truly new , " " soul-subduing , And other fond truths of impartial , reviewing , I fancy I hear her , in tones of caresses , Exclaim , ( i God preserve his dear elderly tresses !"

    Lo ! first then ( for not in stern order of fame _. But in blest alphabetical order they came ) Miss Aikin judicious ;—discreet Mrs Austin , Whose English her German you'll never find lost in

    ;—And Madame d'Arblay , mighty grave all the while , Yet at heart smitten still betwixt fun and a style , And longing to tell us more ladies' distresses 'Twixt lords , and vulgarians , and debts for their dresses So deep was her curtsey , the hoop that she wore Seem'd fairly conveying her right through the floor .

    But up she swam round , and Miss Baillie succeeded : No queen could have come with such pages as she did ; For who , do you think , held her train up ?—The Passions They did indeed ;—all too in elegant fashions . The god in his arms with gay reverence _lock'd her , For two sakes , —her own , and her brother ' s—the doctor .

    A young lady then , whom to miss were a caret In any verse- history , named , I think , Barrett , ( I took her at first for a sister of Tennyson ) Knelt , and receiv'd the god ' s kindliest benison . — " Truly , * said he , * ' dost thou share the blest power Poetic , the fragrance , as well as the flower ; The gift of conveying impressions unseen , i i « 1 . 1 ¦ % . i i .. i

    • . And making the vaguest thoughts know what they mean . Only pray have a care , nor let Alfred beguile Admiration too far into manner and style ; Nor divide with the printer your claims to be read By directing our faculties when to say 3 d . Such anxieties do both your ( jreniuses wrong ; " ] Tend to make things too verbal , the mind not so strong ; Arid besides , my dear , who has not read an old song ? " J

    ( 6 ) See the New Monthly Magazine * far last year ; I forget which months cannot , while writing this note , refer to them .

    Or, The Feast Of The Violets.

    Or , the Feast of the Violets .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/37/