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Astley Henry
Baldwin
Baldwin, Astley H.
A. H. B.
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Fukushima
University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poet attribution: Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that A. H. Baldwin was paid 10s for the poem (NLS Dep 341/369). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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In the twilight, in the gloaming,
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In the twilight, in the gloaming,
Of November’s. thirteenth day,
Lies my open desk before me ;
What I muse on, who shall say ?
Here are stored my choicest treasures—
Stored for many a weary year !
Desk ! old silent friend, I love thee,
Witness mute of many a tear !
Only a blue knot of ribbon,
Dropped from a fair woman’s hair !
Only a poor withered flower,
Faded lie, enshrinèd there !
Only one lock, long and golden,
Cut from off a sunny head !
Only letters, sere and yellow,
Traced by fingers white and dead !
Well !—I close thee. God be praisèd !
Bitter memories last not aye !
Time, to tenderness oft mellows
Saddest thoughts of days gone by !
A. H. B.