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ThoU ' lt say , " My first-born blessing ! It almost broke my heart When thou wert forced to go ; And yet for thee I know Twas better to depart .
God took thee in his mercy , A lamb untasked * untried—He fought the fight for thee- — He won the victory—And thou art sanctified .
I look around and see The evil ways of men . And oh ! beloved child ! I ' m more than reconciled To thy departure then . *
The little arms that clasped me , The little lips that pressed , Would they have been as pure Till now , as when of yore I lulled thee on my breast ?
Now like a dew-drop shrined Within a crystal stone , Thou ' rt safe in Heaven , my dove Safe with the source of love , The everlasting One ! And when the hour arrives , From flesh that sets me free ,
Thy spirit may await , The first at Heaven ' s gate , To meet and welcome me . pp . 122—127 .
We have dwelt thus largely on the poetry of Miss Bowles , because it is little known in proportion to its merit ; so much less 1
than her prose . Her ' Chapters on Churchyardsare familiar to the readers of Blackwood , and indeed to general readers , since their publication in a separate form . Our space being exhausted , we must postpone our observations on those very powerful and very English sketches , to some future opportunity ; contenting ourselves , lest such opportunity should not arrive , writer
with merely saying that we scarcely know a lemale , wno has exhibited the same chaste , bold , manliness of style , equally free from the attempt to sparkle , or to astound by its grandiloquisni , combined with the same masculine power and feminine feeling , the same poetical taste , and delight in all that belongs to the country and the English character . Her subject enables her to revel amongst the most picturesque , old-fashioned , and
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The fFritingi and Genius of Caroline Bowles . 34 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/33/
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