AN ACROSTIC 
 
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 Eo illats ^nnt Btoiune, 
 
 0/ JVorton Lodge^ I sleworthy-^ Author of 
 Mont Blanc f Ada fyc. 
 
 
 
 ilf-ONT Blanc’s great minstrel ! lady of renown ! 
 j^-DA’s sweet authoress! highly-gifted Browne! 
 li-esplendent beauties glisten on each page 
 F-our mind has penn’d, both passionate and sage ; 
 
 A richer wreath of flowers Parnassian 
 i\r. e’er yet was cull’d than in your lays we scan. 
 iV-ot Hemans’ strains, nor those of L. E. L., 
 i?-nchanting as they are, do your’s excel. 
 jP-owles, Norton, Wilson, Jewsbury, and Howitt, 
 li-egard not as compeers — they are below it. — 
 
 0-h, charming Browne ! fair daughter of deep thought, 
 ^-ith what fine feelings your great mind is fraught ! 
 iST-ature’s fair scenes in that susceptic store 
 jB-nkindle thoughts till far above they soar — 
 
 J-nspire ideas that ‘^ie too deep for words,” 
 iS'-hrouded within the soul’s remotest hoards.— 
 
 2y-ady ! /’m one — though by her not quite spurn’d— 
 JSJ-namour’d more of Learning than high-learn’d : 
 
 /P^eak though my lines be that display your name, 
 
 0-h ! spare the critic’s frown — forbear to blame,— 
 il-eproach not him who has an honest aim ! — 
 
 ^!r-is hop’d. Enchantress, that we all may long 
 /f-ave oft fresh proofs of your great powers of song. 
 
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 Great Totham May, 1830. 
 
 (REPRINTED OCTOBER, 1841.) 
 
 OltBAT TOTHAM I PRINTED AT QHABLE8 CLAE&’S PRIVATE PRESS.