Weston, March 5, 1852.

For my Friend Mrs. R.

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When writing to you, friend, a subject I’d find

In which there’s both pleasure and profit combined,

And though what I’ve chosen may pain in review,

Yet still there’s strange mingling of pleasure there too.

Then let us go back many years that are past,

And glance at those days much too happy to last.

I have seen thee, my friend, when around thy bright hearth