O WHERE IS THE SPLENDOUR. Susanna Blamire Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire “The muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII. 1842 pp. 187-188.

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O WHERE IS THE SPLENDOUR . Air — Humours of Glen . O where is the splendour can shine away sorrow , Or where is the treasure can buy off a sigh ! Did riches e'er purchase the loan of to-morrow , Or find out a medicine to cure the moist eye ? Let wealth spread her carpet , and ask the gay hours To dance in light circles its borders along ; They'd sooner tend Patrick to Nature's green bowers " With Norah , dear Norah , the theme of his song . " Midst the joys of the heart sits one tender affection To heal every sorrow when tortur'd with pain ; And , when feeling sinks down into silent dejection , Sends Hope with her cordial to cheer her again : Thus love has shown Norah the feints of high station , And told her that peace seldom joins the gay throng ; While " one sweet smile gives Patrick the wealth of a nation From Norah , dear Norah , the theme of his song . " It will be perceived that the author has borrowed the last line of each of the above stanzas from a fine Irish song , entitled " Tho' Leixlip is proud , " in " The Poor Soldier , " but nothing more .