TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. ON ACCIDENTLY MEETING AND PARTING WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT, WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN FOR MANY YEARS, IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, MAY 1828.

TO SIR WALTER SCOTT. ON ACCIDENTLY MEETING AND PARTING WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT, WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN FOR MANY YEARS, IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, MAY 1828. William Lisle Bowles Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

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TO SIR WALTER SCOTT . ON ACCIDENTLY MEETING AND PARTING WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT , WHOM I HAD NOT SEEN FOR MANY YEARS , IN THE STREETS OF LONDON , MAY 1828. Since last I saw that countenance so mild , Slow-stealing age , and a faint line of care , Had gently touched , methought , some features there ; Yet looked the man as placid as a child , And the same voice , — whilst mingled with the throng , Unknowing , and unknown , we passed along , — That voice , a share of the brief time beguiled ! That voice I ne'er may hear again , I sighed At parting , — wheresoe'er our various way , In this great world , — but from the banks of Tweed , As slowly sink the shades of eventide , Oh ! I shall hear the music of his reed , Far off , and thinking of that voice , shall say , A blessing rest upon thy locks of gray !