FAREWELL STANZAS ON LEAVING COOKHAM, IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR, 1781, WHEN MR. B. WAS NOT QUITE EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD, TWO YEARS AFTER HE LEFT ETON-SCHOOL. George Monck Berkeley 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. T142950 K111746.000 Berkeley, George Monck, 1763-1793. Poems: by the late George-Monck Berkeley, Esq. ... With a preface by the editor, consisting of some anecdotes of Mr. Monck Berkeley and several of his friends. London printed by J. Nichols; and sold by Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby; Mr. Edwards; Mr. Cooke, Oxford; Mr. Todd, York; Messrs. Simmons and Co.; Messrs. Flackton, Marrable, and Claris; and Mr. Bristow, Canterbury 1797 pp. 71-72. viii,DCXXXII,212p.,plate: port.; 4⁰.

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FAREWELL STANZAS ON LEAVING COOKHAM Cookham and Taplow were at that time inhabited by a number of such families as few neighbourhoods could then , can now , boast ; many gentlemen of great learning , many ladies , mothers and daughters , with highly-cultivated minds , by which is not meant that they had a smattering of Latin or Greek . With these Mr. B.'s family lived in great intimacy . , IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR , 1781 , WHEN MR. B. WAS NOT QUITE EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD , TWO YEARS AFTER HE LEFT ETON-SCHOOL . TO MRS. MALTHUS . YE nymphs and swains , so innocently gay , Who dwell where Thames rolls on his silver way ; Where'er in Cookham's lov'd retreats you stray , To you a wand'rer gives his parting lay ; Nor will he e'er forget those blissful days , Where on your banks he tun'd his artless lays ; To you his Muse this parting tribute pays , And sings , but sings unbrib'd , your modest praise . But now a long farewell , ye nymphs , ye swains ; With you no more I tread the verdant plains , No more with you I share my joys , my pains , Nor shall you hear again my plaintive strains : But ere , lov'd Thames , thy flow'ry banks I leave , Where oft I've hail'd th' approach of sober eve , Do thou , whilst Fate permits a short reprieve Dr. Berkeley put off his journey to the university of St. Andrew , whither he accompanied his son , from February , when he meant to have set out , until April . , Do thou , dear Thames The pleasure-grounds at Dr. B.'s house at Cookham go quite down to the Thames . , this parting wish receive ; " O! ever gently flow , thou hallow'd stream ! O! may thy waves be still the Muse's theme ! When on thy banks pale Cynthia sheds her beam , " O! there may Fancy gild the Poet's dream !