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JEUX D'ESPRIT AND MINOR POEMS, 1798-1824.
3.
It saw the "light in ninety-eight,"
Sweet babe of one and twenty years![1]
And then he gives it to the nation
And deems himself of Shakespeare's peers!
4.
He gives the perfect work to light!
Will Wordsworth, if I might advise,
Content you with the praise you get
From Sir George Beaumont, Baronet,
And with your place in the Excise!
Ravinna, March 22, 1820.
[First published, Paradies, etc., collected ... by Walter
Hamilton, 1888, p. 105.]
[First published, Paradies, etc., collected ... by Walter
Hamilton, 1888, p. 105.]
ON MY WEDDING-DAY.
Here's a happy New Year! but with reason
I beg you'll permit me to say—
Wish me many returns of the Season,
But as few as you please of the Day[2]
January 2, 1820.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 294.]
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 294.]
EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM PITT.
With Death doomed to grapple,
Beneath this cold slab, he
Who lied in the Chapel
Now lies in the Abbey.
January 2, 1820.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 295.]
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 295.]
