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    Cridled in poverty , the poet child prank in anpction from his mother * * breast ; Wtf ^ gaant tjAfl ' cfUMKrtb of Chatterton ; Tfitf pmtitte jWm&s defended to her boy : Ht grew fc £ a le and melancholy child , Wkbeut a f 4 aymate v lone and uncaresa'd , 'Mid the drear solitude of busy towns ; And the worst solitude—of friendlessness .

    Strangefancies Btirr * d within . him , 4 md higlrhope ^ , D ^ y 4 ireawi » of glory , those resplendent visifins T ^ t eiiher make or mar the greatest minds : Then want and sorrow tried him ; and the sting Ot vulgar scorn ; or , what is . worse , proud pity Wounded his spirit : and his cheek grew paler ; Pale 'twas before with watching , now with want ; His li p was ashy ; but his eye beanrd on , £ In its unearthly brightness . *

    His brain outgrew his strength , The giant tenant burst its narrow cell , A « d . madness follow'd : Famine wva& withering him : death is nought } Where life isk ^ gony ; he < Jar ' cl and died . The n * . strangers , came , to wonder , not to pity , < T ° WIP& aa . hiA . jCQ . ld corse with colder eyes . n )

    Ot ^ ie ocU tri bunal and the paiiper *« doom , A wprUiQUse funeral and a parish pall ; His fomi unfollaw'd to its tojnbless grave , His loss tfnwept by any kindred eye ; What r * cfc * d his spirit of a wrong like this ? ' . ' Hi * cenotaph V ^ as built in buman hearts , Genius his ' scutcheon ; fame-his epitaph .

    When veil'd in death , and Uuah'd in the long sleep , Xba $ , hs + xA lay still' 4 for ever ; then , the voice , Qi { r ^ n ^ Ji ^ jnKirisy could raise iu wai { + Aft 4 ih $ mkxY # l & * My * with jil ~ feign'd pity . / f $ d slaves

    * Had )) pftpj 4 ie ^ tp ysI ^ ars ! 'Mid all the parasites , who prate of crime And blame that * lonely boy , ' not one had giv * n A mite , to save the soul they dar'd to doom .

    When twilight throws Its soft veil o ' er the earth ; when the paie moon Sleeps on the broad blue bosom of the sky . And my soul , tranquillized by silence , breaks The thrall of worklliness , 1 think of him ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 737, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/63/