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D OF LORD BYRON'S REMAINS (1824) Manners, they say, by climate alter not: Who goes a drunkard will return a sot. So lordly Juan, damn'd to lasting fame, Went out a pickle, and came back the same. LINES _Suggested by a Sight of Waltham Cross_ (1827) Time-mouldering CROSSES, gemm'd with imagery Of costliest work, and Gothic tracery, Point still the spots, to hallow'd wedlock dear, Where rested on its solemn way the bier, That bore the bones of Edward's Elinor To mix with Royal dust at Westminster.-- Far different rites did thee to dust consign, Duke Brunswick's daughter, Princely Caroline. A hurrying funeral, and a banish'd grave, High-minded Wife! were all that thou could'st have. Grieve not, great Ghost, nor count in death thy losses; Thou in thy life-time had'st thy share of _crosses._ FOR THE "TABLE BOOK" (1827) Laura, too partial to her friends' enditing, Requires from each a pattern of their _writing._ A weightier trifle Laura might command; For who to Laura would refuse his--_hand?_ THE ROYAL WONDERS (1830) Two miracles at once! Compell'd by fate, His tarnish'd throne the Bourbon doth vacate; While English William,--a diviner thing,-- Of his free pleasure hath put off _the king._ The forms of distant old respect lets pass, And melts his crown into the common mass. Health to fair France, and fine regeneration! But England's is the nobler abdication. "BREVIS ESSE LABORO" "ONE DIP" (1830) Much speech obscures the sense; the soul of wit Is brevity: our tale one proof of it. Poor Balbulus, a stammering invalid, Consults the doctors, and by them is bid To try sea-bathing, with this special heed, "One Dip was all his malady did need; More than that one his certain death would be." Now who so nervous or so shook as he, For Balbulus had never dipped before? Two well-known dippers at the Broadstai
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