Lines Suggested By A Sight Of Waltham Cross

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Title:     Lines Suggested By A Sight Of Waltham Cross
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

(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._

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Charles Lamb's poem: Lines Suggested By A Sight Of Waltham Cross

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