Impromptu

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Title:     Impromptu
Author: Fanny Kemble [More Titles by Kemble]

You say you're glad I write--oh, say not so!
My fount of song, dear friend, 's a bitter well;
And when the numbers freely from it flow,
'Tis that my heart, and eyes, o'erflow as well.

Castalia, fam'd of yore,--the spring divine,
Apollo's smile upon its current wears:
Moore and Anacreon, found its waves were wine,
To me, it flows a sullen stream of tears.

[The end]
Fanny Kemble's poem: Impromptu

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