Soon as my eyelids close I see thy form,

Pure as the snow-drop, yet in blushes warm.

But oh! what followed?—strange effect of fright,

I dreamed that in my bed thou pass’t the night ...

Come, with thy innocence, thy smiles impart

Fresh joy to me, and mend each wicked heart,

Talk much of charity, and Love, too, teach:

’Tis mine to suffer, but ’tis thine to preach.

CHAPTER VIII
Knole at the End of the Eighteenth Century
JOHN FREDERICK SACKVILLE
3rd
Duke of Dorset

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