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The English Bijou Almanack, 1839
All the poems from this publication were reproduced in The New Yorker,
23rd February 1839, following its obituary tribute to L. E. L. (Mrs. Maclean).
Page 358
THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
A widow with an only child,
The mother of our queen;
A stranger in a foreign land,
Thy lot has various been.
How many claims attend with thee
Upon a nations sympathy!
How many anxious watching hours
Thy Mother's heart has known,
Before the blossom was a flower—
The orphan on a throne!
Ah! may a glorious future wait
On thee—thy child—and England's fate!
