Captain Paton’s Lament

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Captain Paton’s Lament

Poet(s)

Lockhart, John Gibson
Pseudonym:
James Scott

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5:30, 735–736, September 1819.

First line

Touch once more a sober measure, | and let punch and tears be shed

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Document status

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Notes and attribution research

Included in Last Day of the Tent section of this monthly part. Poet attribution: Mary Gordon, Christopher North, W. I. Middleton, 1863, p. 182. See also Strout 59. (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7821

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Captain Paton’s Lament