She'll read it from my vacant chair.
She also writes, that while your health is good,
That very lately she has understood
That you are suffering some distress,
And I must buy for you a new silk dress,
And send it there together with the poetry,
That she could have them both in time for tea.
The journey has been very long my dear,
And you have safely reached your eightieth year,
But you will never seem so old to me,