_Palmers_ all our faders were; I, a _Palmer_ livyd here And travyld still till worne wyth age, I endyd this world’s pylgramage, On the blyst assention day In the cherful month of May; A thowsand wyth fowre hundryd seven, And took my jorney hense to heven. (Printed by Weever.) ED. [25] Compare Talfourd’s _Final Memorials of Charles Lamb_, _passim_.--ED. [26] 1837. _He had a constant friend--in Charity_; HER _who, among_ a multitude of sins, In privately printed edition. [27] 1837. From a reflecting mind and sorrowing heart This tribute flow’d, with hope that it might guard The dust of him whose virtues call’d it forth; But ’tis a little space of earth that man, Stretch’d out in death, is doom’d to occupy; Still smaller space doth modest custom yield, On sculptured tomb or tablet, to the claims Of the deceased, or rights of the bereft. ’Tis well; and tho’, the record overstepped Those narrow bounds, yet on the printed page Received, there may it stand, I trust, unblamed As long as verse of mine shall steal from tears Their bitterness, or live to shed a gleam Of solace over one dejected thought. In privately printed edition. Professor Dowden quotes, from “a slip of MS. in the poet’s hand-writing,” the following variation of these lines-- ’Tis well, and if the Record in the strength And earnestness of feeling, overpass’d Those narrow limits and so miss’d its aim, Yet will I trust that on the printed page Received, it there may keep a place unblamed. ED. [28] Lamb’s indifference to the country “was a sort of ‘mock apparel,’ in which it was his humour at times to invest himself.” (H. N. Coleridge, Supplement to the _Biographia Literaria_, p. 333.)--ED. [29] 1837. Burned, and with ever-strengthening light, enshrined In privately printed edition. [30] 1837. By God, … In privately printed edition. [31] 1837. … Our days pass on; In privately printed edition. [32] 1837. Together stood they witnessing of time In privately printed edition. [33] 1837. Yet, in all visitations, through all trials Still they were faithful, like two goodly ships Launch’d from the beach, … In privately printed edition. [34] Compare the testimony borne to Mary Lamb by Mr. Procter (Barry Cornwall), and by Henry Crabb Robinson.--ED. [35] 1837. … The sacred tie Is broken, to become more sacred still. In privately printed edition. Wordsworth originally meant to write an epitaph on Charles Lamb, but his verse grew into an elegy of some length. A reference to the circumstance of its “composition” will be found in one of his letters, in a later volume.--ED. EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG Composed 1835.--Published 1835