LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, THE GIFT OF QUEEN ADELAIDE TO LADY MAYO. A BEAUTIFUL and bounteous Fay The mother heard not, but the child In her glad dream looked up, and smiled. "I bring thee a rose-a rose for thee, The sweetest of my bower; It is a token thou shalt be As lovely and loved a flower: Thou too shalt brightly bloom, and wear In future years, as now, Blue eyes, and tranquil brow. "I bring thee a lute-an ivory lute; I bring it for a sign That Wit shall sue with an anxious suit For a look or a word of thine. Grave Science at thy feet shall lay "I bring thee a sceptre ! wake and gaze On the symbol of high command: A nation's love, in after days, Shall trust it to thy hand, When from thy home thou shalt depart To be the Bride of a Monarch's heart, "I bring thee a Book-a holy Book: Still up to Heaven from earth, I need not whisper to your thought (1831.) LINES WRITTEN IN THE SAME, UNDER A PICTURE OF THE DUCAL PALACE AT HESSE HOMBURG, THE RESIDENCE OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE III. It is a joyous land, I guess; The sun shines bright, the breeze roves free; And Nature flings her fairest dress On humble herb and lofty tree; But thou wilt think in those far bowers, And proudly o'er those poplars tall Where, when the star of day went down, VOL. I. B B And other friends are round thee now Than those that shared thine early mirth; And thou hast newer slaves to bow, And foreign lutes to hymn thy worth ; But thou wilt never quite forget That here, where first thy praise was heard, Thy virtues are recorded yet, Thy name is yet a household word. And if thou ne'er may'st see again The white cliffs of thy father-land, And if henceforth we seek in vain Thy cheering smile, and bounteous hand,Thou wilt be what thou wast and art, Where'er thy bark may chance to roam; And thou wilt keep thine English heart, And thou wilt love thine English home! (1831.) LINES WRITTEN UNDER A PORTRAIT OF LORD MAYO, DRAWN BY THE QUEEN. A COURTIER of the nobler sort, A Christian of the purer school ;— Tory, when Whigs are great at Court, And Protestant, when Papists rule ; Prompt to support the Monarch's crown, Still ready,-favoured or disgraced,— NOVEMBER, 1833. |