O BID ME NOT TO WANDER. Written when earnestly entreated to go to the South of France for the recovery of her health. 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. 188-189.

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O BID ME NOT TO WANDER . Written when earnestly entreated to go to the South of France for the recovery of her health . Air — A Rose Tree . O urge me not to wander , And quit my pleasant native shore ; O let me still meander On those sweet banks I lov'd before ! The heart when fill'd with sorrow Can find no joy in change of scene , Nor can that cheat to-morrow Be aught but what to-day has been . If pleasure e'er o'ertakes me , 'Tis when I tread the wonted round Where former joy awakes me , And strews its relics o'er the ground . There's not a shrub or flower But tells some dear lov'd tale to me , And paints some happy hour Which I , alas ! no more shall see .