Note 434 — MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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It would have been very dear to her, could she have foreseen the delicate and appropriate commemoration awarded to her by Mr Wordsworth, in the elegiac stanzas which record the high names of some of his most distinguished contemporaries, (Scott, Coleridge, Lamb, Crabbe, and Hogg,) summoned in quick succession “to the land whence none return:”—
“Mourn rather for that holy spirit, Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep, For her who, ere her summer faded, Has sunk into a breathless sleep.”