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My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy

4 May 2023

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My dearest Frank, I wish you joy

Of Mary's safety with a Boy,

Whose birth has given little pain

Compared with that of Mary Jane.

May he a growing Blessing prove,

And well deserve his Parents' Love!

Endow'd with Art's and Nature's Good,

Thy Name possessing with thy Blood,

In him, in all his ways, may we

Another Francis WIlliam see!

Thy infant days may he inherit,

THey warmth, nay insolence of spirit;

We would not with one foult dispense

To weaken the resemblance.

May he revive thy Nursery sin,

Peeping as daringly within,

His curley Locks but just descried,

With 'Bet, my be not come to bide.'

Fearless of danger, braving pain,

And threaten'd very oft in vain,

Still may one Terror daunt his Soul,

One needful engine of Controul

Be found in this sublime array,

A neigbouring Donkey's aweful Bray.

So may his equal faults as Child,

Produce Maturity as mild!

His saucy words and fiery ways

In early Childhood's pettish days,

In Manhood, shew his Father's mind

Like him, considerate and Kind;

All Gentleness to those around,

And anger only not to wound.

Then like his Father too, he must,

To his own former struggles just,

Feel his Deserts with honest Glow,

And all his self-improvement know.

A native fault may thus give birth

To the best blessing, conscious Worth.

As for ourselves we're very well;

As unaffected prose will tell.

Cassandra's pen will paint our state,

The many comforts that await

Our Chawton home, how much we find

Already in it, to our mind;

And how convinced, that when complete

It will all other Houses beat

The ever have been made or mended,

With rooms concise, or rooms distended.

You'll find us very snug next year,

Perhaps with Charles and Fanny near,

For now it often does delight us

To fancy them just over-right us.

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My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy

4 May 2023
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My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared with that of Mary Jane. May he a growing Blessing prove, And well deserve his Pa

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To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy who died Dec:r 16 -- my Birthday

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Oh! Mr. Best, you're very bad And all the world shall know it; Your base behaviour shall be sung By me, a tunefull Poet.-- You used to go to Harrowgate Each summer as it came, And wh

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See they come, post haste from Thanet

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When Stretch'd on One's Bed

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When stretch'd on one's bed With a fierce-throbbing head, Which precludes alike thought or repose, How little one cares For the grandest affairs That may busy the world as it goes!

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When Winchester races

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When Winchester races first took their beginning It is said the good people forgot their old Saint Not applying at all for the leave of Saint Swithin And that William of Wykeham's approval wa

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