The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...
The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...
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<strong>The</strong> Salamanca Corpus: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Poetical</strong> <strong>Works</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Miss</strong> <strong>Susanna</strong> <strong>Blamire</strong> (<strong>1842</strong>)<br />
“What tho’ we befriendit young Charlie?—<br />
To tell it I dinna think shame;<br />
Poor lad, he cam to us but barely,<br />
An’ reckon’d our mountains his hame.<br />
’Tis true that our reason forbade us;<br />
But tenderness carried the day;—<br />
Had Geordie come friendless amang us,<br />
Wi’ him we had a’ gane away.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chelsea Pensioners may be found beautifully harmonized Mr R. A. Smith, in<br />
his “Scottish Minstrel,” vol. v. p. 24.<br />
[177] .<br />
NAY, NAY, CENSOR TIME.<br />
NAY, nay, Censor Time, I’ll be happy to-day,<br />
For I see thou’rt grown gray with thy cares;<br />
<strong>The</strong>n preach not to me, as my life steals away,<br />
Of the pleasure <strong>of</strong> far distant years.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sands in thy glass in s<strong>of</strong>t silence depart,<br />
Yet thy cheek grows the paler the while;<br />
But the drops there in mine fill the tubes <strong>of</strong> the heart,<br />
And mount to my lip with a smile.<br />
And thou would’st smile too, if my fair one thou’d toast;<br />
Nay sip <strong>of</strong> my bumper and see!<br />
Her charms will dissolve e’en thy age’s chill frost,<br />
And make thee as youthful as me.<br />
To be young, cried old Time, my own glass I’ll forego,<br />
And freely will sip out <strong>of</strong> thine;<br />
<strong>The</strong>n tasted, and cried, Let thy Cynthia now know<br />
She has warm’d the cold bosom <strong>of</strong> Time.<br />
For this the late rose shall still hang on her cheek,<br />
Though the blossoms <strong>of</strong> youth should decay;<br />
And the s<strong>of</strong>t eye be left, its own language to speak,<br />
For a mind far more beauteous than they!<br />
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