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O BID ME NOT TO WANDER.

Written when earnestly entreated to go to the South of France for the recovery of her health.

Air β€” A Rose Tree.
1 O urge me not to wander,
2 And quit my pleasant native shore;
3 O let me still meander
4 On those sweet banks I lov'd before!
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5 The heart when fill'd with sorrow
6 Can find no joy in change of scene,
7 Nor can that cheat to-morrow
8 Be aught but what to-day has been.
9 If pleasure e'er o'ertakes me,
10 'Tis when I tread the wonted round
11 Where former joy awakes me,
12 And strews its relics o'er the ground.
13 There's not a shrub or flower
14 But tells some dear lov'd tale to me,
15 And paints some happy hour
16 Which I, alas! no more shall see.

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Title (in Source Edition): O BID ME NOT TO WANDER. Written when earnestly entreated to go to the South of France for the recovery of her health.
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Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire β€œThe muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh: John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII., 1842, pp. 188-189.  (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [42.256].)

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