identifier:
23-3-autograph-collection-stalbans-verse-1938-944
title:
Beauclerk, William Aubrey De Vere: Poem
date:
January 1838
description:
On Gypsies -- Hast thou not noted on the by-way side, Where England's loanings stretch unsoiled and wide, or by the brook that thro the valley pours, Where mimic waves play lightly thro the flowers, A noisy crew for struggling thro the glade, Busied with trifles, or in slumber laid, Their children lolling round them on the grass, or pestering with their spoots the patient ...? The wrinkled grandam there you may espy, The ripe young maiden with her glossy eye; Men in their prime - the stiplings park and run, Scathed by the storms, and freckled by the sun; O mark them well when next the group you see, In vacant barn, or resting on the lea; They are the remnant of a race of old - Spare note the trifle for your fortune told! For there shalt thou behold with nature bent A tint of mind in every lineament, A mould of soul distinct, but hard to trace, Unknown except to Israel's wandering race; For thence, as sages say, their line they drew - O mark them well! the tales of old are true
type:
Poem
relation:
Autograph Collection: Beauclerk, William Aubrey De Vere (9th Duke of St. Albans)
subject:
Beauclerk, William Aubrey De Vere
subject:
9th Duke of St. Albans
subject:
poem
subject:
gypsies
relation:
Autograph Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/