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# To My Infant Daughter "Ada"

First published in The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal, 1 June 1861
Aged Three Years.
CHILD of my heart, my loved one, I view thy beauties shine, My work on earth is nearly done, Yet still I feel thou'rt mine.
My treasur'd child, my beautiful, With front of guileless mein And eyes like stars—(my heart is full, From wrongs I've felt and seen.)
But thou, sweet child, so young in years,— Dost wonder when I sigh— (Ah, could I weep—my deep-drawn tears Are still and sunk mine eye,)
On thee I gaz'd, as thou lay calm In sleep's refreshing rest, Yet when I sleep I close that balm That fills thy placid breast.
This very morn I stood beside The couch whereon you lay So still, so calm—Oh! I must hide The "grief that wears away!"
And wilt thou weep thy father's death When down'd in sable dress-- When I'm laid low!—no flatt'ring breath— No blessing, nor caress!
Sweet Ada, thy infantive kiss Is all I crave from thee,— A brighter world, more fair than this I hasten to—I'm free!
And soon I'll die:—They cannot wane Thy feelings, child, astray From him whose greatest fault hath been The love of thee alway.
Farewell! Oh, on that parting word I breathe a father's pray'r— A prayer that is in Heav'n heard— Borne to me, Ada, there!
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# To My Class: On Certain Fruits and Flowers Sent Me in Sickness

Sidney Lanier composed this sonnet in Baltimore, Maryland at Christmas, 1880, just a few weeks before he passed away. His class in English Literature, composed of young girls, had been studying Chaucer’s The Knighte’s Tale when he was stricken with illness. His sonnet “On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill” was similarly conceived for a member of that same class.
If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale  With passions of perfume, —if violets blue  That hint of heaven with odor more than hue, — If perfect roses, each a holy Grail Wherefrom the blood of beauty doth exhale  Grave raptures round, —if leaves of green as new  As those fresh chaplets wove in dawn and dew By Emily when down the Athenian vale She paced, to do observance to the May,  Nor dreamed of Arcite nor of Palamon, — If fruits that riped in some more riotous play  Of wind and beam that stirs our temperate sun, —  If these the products be of love and pain,  Oft may I suffer, and you love, again.
# To My Friend

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# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Bastable, Charles F.

​BASTABLE, Charles F., M.A., LL.D. (T.C.D.): Professor of Political Economy, Dublin University, since 1882; Prof, of Jurisprudence and International Law, Dublin University, 1902; Regius Professor of Laws since 1908; Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy, Queen's College, Galway, 1883-1903; Examiner, University of London, 1888-93, 1897-1903, 1904-7, 1912-16; University of Wales, 1898-1902; Royal University of Ireland, 1888-91, 1895-99; University of Manchester, 1905-7; University of New Zealand, 1909-13; Queen's University of Belfast, 1910-1913; Cambridge University, 1913, 1914, 1919; University of Liverpool, 191418; University of Sheffield, 1915-17; George Rae Lecturer, University College of North Wales, 1905; Warburton Lecturer, University of Manchester, 1909-10; President of Section F. Brit. Assoc. (Oxford), 1894. Pubns.: Theory of International Trade; Commerce of Nations; Public Finance; contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica, articles English Finance, Finance, Money (9th, 10th, and 11th eds.), Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, The Encyclopædia of Accounting, Dictionary of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Economic Journal; son of Rev. R. Bastable; b. at Charleville, 1855. Res.: 52 Brighton Road, Rathgar, Dublin.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Battersby, Thos. Stephenson Francis

​BATTERSBY, Thos. Stephenson Francis, M.A. (T.C.D.), K.C.; Senior Crown Prosecutor Waterford City and County and Queen's County; J.P., Cos. Dublin and Meath. Educ.: Rathmines School; Marlborough College; Dublin University. Various honours and prizes ​in Trinity College, Dublin, in History, English Literature, and Irish; graduated with Senior Moderatorship and gold medal in History, Political Economy, and Law; University Philosophical Society's medal in Composition; College Historical Society's medal in History. President of the University Philosophical Society, 1878-79; various cups in University Rowing Club; in the University 1st football XV.; Road Club medal 100 miles in 12 hours (solid tyre); cups for long dive, Marlborough, Wicklow, and Skerries; Irish record long-distance swim (Bray Head to Dalkey Island), 51 miles in 121 minutes, July 22nd, 1884; won cruisers races. Skerries Regattas, 1898 and 1899. Some time Chairman, Dublin Musical Society; contested (U.) S. Fermanagh, 1900-1910; Vice-President, City of Dublin Unionist Association and Member of Council of S. Co. Dublin Unionist Association; Executive Committee Feis Ceoil. Pubns.: Compensation to Landlords the corollary to the Land Act; The Fiscal Question in the United States; Grand Jury Laws of Ireland; Irish Election Law; Municipal Elections; The Pocket Pleader. Recns.: yachting, summing, cycling, golf, tennis, croquet; b. 17th April, 1855; son of Fras. Battersby, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., and Elizabeth Crooke; in. 18S3, Jeanie, dau. of Samuel Gerrard Solicitor; one son two daus. Res.: 45 Upper Mount Street, Dublin; Shenick Lodge, Skerries, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Royal Ulster Yacht, Skerries Golf.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Barton, Sir John George

​BARTON, Sir John George, Knt. (1902); C.F.. (1900); F.S.I.; studied engineering under Messrs. Maudsley, Sons, and Field, London, and James Barton, Member of Council, Institute C.E.; constructed the Castlederg Light Railway; was joint engineer of the Clogher Valley Railway; Inspecting Engineer of the Board of Works; Government Arbitrator under Board of Trade for several railways in Ireland; member of Departmental Committees on Science Colleges for Ireland. Decorated for service in connection with the Local Govt. (Ireland) Act; late Commissioner of Valuation and Chief Boundary Surveyor of Ireland to 1917; b. 13th October, 1850; son of James Barton, M.Inst.C.E., Farndreg, Co. Louth; m. 1916, Florence, dau. of Col. C. Grantham, and widow of Col. A. E. Hamilton Smyth. Pves.: Farndreg, Co. Louth. Clubs: Windham, Constitutional, London; Hibernian United Service, Dublin.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Battersby, Major-Gen. Thomas Preston

​BATTERSBY, Major-Gen. Thomas Preston, C.B. (1917), F.R.A.S. Lieut., Royal Artillery, 1876; served in the Army Ordnance Department from 1882-1918; Assistant Director-General of Ordnance, Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores, 1913-14; Inspector of Army Ordnance Services, 1914-1918. Pubns.; Some Works under a Pseudonym. Recns.: chiefly scientific; son of Charles John Battersby, of Cromlyn, Westmeath; m. Agnes Janet, dau. of John Evens, of The Haven, St. Stephen's, Canterbury. Res.: Cromlyn, Rathowen, Co. Westmeath.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Baxter, James Sinclair

​BAXTER, James Sinclair, M.A., Hon. LL.D., Dublin, LL.B. (Lond.); Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law. Trinity College, Dublin; Professor of English Law, Queen's University, Belfast; Barrister-at-Law; m. 1901, Susan Byers; one son, one dau. Res.: 8 Northbrook Road, Dublin. Clubs: University, Dublin; Common Room, Trinity College.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Bayly, Major Edward Archibald Theodore

​BAYLY, Major Edward Archibald Theodore, D.S.O. (1917), Major Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Educ.: Radley College: University College, Oxford. Attached Egyptian Army, 1908-1918; served S. African War, 1899-1902; Relief of Ladysmith, actions at Colenso, Tugela Heights, Pieter's Hill, operations in Transvaal and Cape Colony; (severely wounded; Queen's medal with 5 clasps; King's medal with 2 clasps); Sudan, 1908; operations in Jebel Nyima District of S. Kordofan (Egyptian medal with clasp): Sudan, 1910; operations in S. Kordofan (Sudan medal with clasp); Sudan, 1916; conquest of Darfur (despatches, clasp to Sudan medal, D.S.O.); Sudan, 1917; operations against Lan Miers (in command; despatches, 3rd class Order of the Nile, clasp to Sudan medal); Palestine, 1918: b. 19th June, 1877; eldest son of late Col. E. R. Bayly, D.L., of Ballyarthur, Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow. Res.: Ballyarthur, Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow. Clubs: Sports; Kildare Street, Dublin.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Bayne, Samuel Gamble

​BAYNE, Samuel Gamble, Banker; b. Ulster, Ireland, Nov. 11th, 1844; son of Peter and Margaret Bayne. Educ. Royal Acad. Institution and Queen's College, Belfast; m. 1874, Emily Kelsey, of New York; started business in office of Sir James Hamilton, Belfast; later linen manufacturer in Belfast until March, 1869; came to U.S.; went to oil regions, 1870; drilled many wells there; went around the world, 1874-5; started in banking business in Bradford, Pa., organised first Nat. Bank and became its first President; afterwards organised Nat. Banks in Tex., Kan., Miss., Minn., and Ohio; organised Seaboard Nat. Rank, 1883, now its President; Treasurer Produce Exchange Deposit Vaults; President Atlas Improvement Co., Riverside Drive Property Association. Club: New York Athletic. Author: Pith of Astronomy, 1896; On an Irish Jaunting Car; Through Donegal and Connemara, 1902. Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel, 1909. Res.: White Plains, New York, and Riverside Driven and 108th Street. Office: 18 Broadway, New York.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Batten, Lieut.-Col. John Beardmore

​BATTEN, Lieut.-Col. John Beardmore, D.S.O. (1917). Educ.: Winchester College; joined Roval Fusiliers, 2nd Lieut., 1901; Lieut., 1904; Captain, 1910. Resigned regular Commission, 1912; served in France during War, and commanded 24th Batt. Manchester Regiment; b. 30th March, 1883; eldest son of Col. Cary Batten, O.B.E.; m, 1910, Mary Evelyn, dau. of John Locke. Res.: Lynn Lodge, Mullingar. Clubs: Kildare Street, Dublin, Army and Navy, London.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Battersby, John Radcliff

​BATTERSBY, John Radcliff, J.P., Cos. Meath and Westmeath; Barrister, King's Inns, 1864; Lincoln's Inn, 1865; son of late Geo. Battersby, LL.D., of Loughbawn, Co. Westmeath; Judge of Consistorial Court, Dublin; b. 1839; m. 1873, Augusta, dau. of John Rynd, of Reynella, Co. Westmeath. Res.: Loughbawn, nr. Collinstown, Co. Westmeath.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Battley, Lieut.-Col. D'Oyly Cade

​BATTLEY, Lieut.-Col. D'Oyly Cade, D.L. J.P., Co. Wicklow (High Sheriff, 1889), J.P., Cos. Cork and Dublin (High Sheriff, 1911); Lieut.-Col. late 3rd Batt. Middlesex Regt.; eldest son of Major D'Oyly William Battley, late 77th Regt., of Belvedere Hall, Bray, Co. Wicklow; b. 1841; m. 1868, Annie, dau. of William Henry Jackson, of Inane, Co. Tipperary. Res.: Belvedere Hall, Bray, Co. Wicklow. United Service and Constitutional Clubs, London.
# Treatise of Human Nature/Book 2: Of the passions/Part 3
### BOOK 2: Of the passions

PART III: Of the will and direct passions.
   * Section I. Of liberty and necessity
   * Section II. The same subject continu'd
   * Section III. Of the influencing motives of the will
   * Section IV. Of the causes of the violent passions
   * Section V. Of the effects of custom
   * Section VI. Of the influence of the imagination on the passions
   * Section VII. Of contiguity and distance in space and time
   * Section VIII.The same subject continu'd
   * Section IX. Of the direct passions
   * Section X. Of curiosity, or the love of truth
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From Jonathan Swift to Esther Vanhomrigh - 10

TO VANESSA.
Gallstown, near Kinnegad, July 5, 1721.
IT was not convenient, hardly possible, to write to you before now, though I had a more than ordinary desire to do it, considering the disposition I found you in last; though I hope I left you in a better. I must here beg you to take more care of your health by company and exercise, or else the spleen will get the better of you, than which there is not a more foolish or troublesome disease, and what you have no pretences to in the world, if all the advantages of life can be any defence against it. Cadenus —— assures me, he continues to esteem, and love, and value you above all things, and so will do to the end of his life; but at the same time entreats that you would not make yourself or him unhappy by imaginations. The wisest men of all ages have thought it the best course to seize the ​minutes as they fly, and to make every innocent action an amusement. If you knew how I struggle for a little health, what uneasiness I am at in riding and walking, and refraining from every thing agreeable to my taste, you would think it but a small thing to take a coach now and then, and to converse with fools or impertinents, to avoid spleen and sickness. Without health you will lose all desire of drinking coffee, and be so low as to have no spirits. Pray write to me cheerfully, without complaints or expostulations, or else Cadenus shall know it, and punish you. What is this world without being as easy in it as prudence and fortune can make us? I find it every day more silly and insignificant, and I conform myself to it for my own ease. I am here as deeply employed in other folks plantations and ditches, as if they were my own concern; and think of my absent friends with delight, and hopes of seeing them happy, and of being happy with them. Shall you, who have so much honour and good sense, act otherwise, to make Cad—— and yourself miserable? Settle your affairs, and quit this scoundrel island, and things will be as you desire. I can say no more, being called away. Mais soyez assurée que jamais personne au monde n'a été aimée, honorée, estimée, adorée par votre ami que vous. I have drunk no coffee since I left you, nor intend it till I see you again: there is none worth drinking but yours, if myself may be the judge. Adieu.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From Jonathan Swift to Esther Vanhomrigh - 12

TO THE SAME.
LOUGHGALL, COUNTY OF ARMAGH,
JULY 13, 1722.
I AM well pleased with the account of your visit, and the behaviour of the ladies. I see every day as silly things among both sexes, yet endure them for the sake of amusement. The worst thing in you and me is, that we are too hard to please; and whether we have made ourselves so, is the question; at least I believe we have the same reason. One thing that I differ from you in is, that I do not quarrel with my best friends. I believe you have ten angry passages in your letter, and every one of them enough to spoil two days apiece of riding and walking. We differ prodigiously in one point: I fly from the spleen to the world's end; you run out ​of your way to meet it. I doubt the bad weather has hindered you much from the diversions of your country house, and put you upon thinking in your chamber. The use I have made of it, was to read, I know not how many, diverting books of history and travels. I wish you would get yourself a horse, and have always two servants to attend you, and visit your neighbours; the worse the better: there is a pleasure in being reverenced; and that is always in your power, by your superiority of sense, and an easy fortune. The best maxim I know in this life is, to drink your coffee when you can; and when you cannot, to be easy without it: while you continue to be splenetick, count upon it, I will always preach. Thus much I sympathise with you, that I am not cheerful enough to write; for I believe coffee, once a week, is necessary to that. I can sincerely answer all your questions as I used to do; but then I give all possible way to amusements, because they preserve my temper, as exercise does my health; and without health and good humour I would rather be a dog. I have shifted scenes oftener than ever I did in my life, and I believe have lain in thirty beds since I left town, and always drew up the clothes with my left hand; which is a superstition I have learned these ten years. I long to see you in figure and equipage. Pray do not lose that taste. Farewel.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From Jonathan Swift to Esther Vanhomrigh - 8

TO THE SAME.
I RECEIVED your letter when some company was with me on Saturday night, and it put me in such confusion that I could not tell what to do. This morning a woman, who does business for me, told me she heard I was in love with one — naming you, and twenty particulars; that little master —— and I visited you; and that the archbishop did so; and that you had abundance of wit, &c. I ever feared the tattle of this nasty town, and told you so: and that was the reason why I said to you long ago, that I would see you seldom when you were in Ireland; and I must beg you to be easy, if, for some time I visit you seldomer, and not in so particular a manner. I will see you at the latter end of the week, if possible. These are accidents in life that are necessary, and must be submitted to; and tattle, by the help of discretion, will wear off.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From Jonathan Swift to Henrietta Howard - 1

TO MRS. HOWARD.
I AM so very nice, and my workmen so fearful, that there is yet but one piece finished of the two, which you commanded me to send to her royal highness. The other was done; but the undertaker, confessing it was not to the utmost perfection, has obtained my leave for a second attempt; in which he promises to do wonders, and tells me it will be ready in another fortnight; although, perhaps, the humour may be quite off both with the princess and you; for, such were courts when I knew them. I desire you will order her royal highness to go to Richmond as soon as she can this summer, because she will have the pleasure of my neighbourhood; for I hope to be in London by the ​middle of March, and I do not love you much when you are there: and I expect to find you are altered by flattery or ill company. I am glad to tell you now, that I honour you with my esteem; because, when the princess grows a crowned head, you shall have no more such compliments; and it is a hundred to one whether you will deserve them. I do not approve of your advice to bring over pumps for myself, but will rather provide another shoe for his royal highness, against there shall be occasion. I will tell you an odd accident that happened this night: — While I was caressing one of my Houhynhnms, he bit my little finger so cruelly, that I am hardly able to write; and I impute the cause to some foreknowledge in him, that I was going to write to a Sieve Yahoo, for so you are pleased to call yourself. Pray tell sir Robert Walpole, that if he does not use me better next summer than he did last, I will study revenge, and it shall be vengeance ecclésiastique. I hope you will get your house and wine ready, to which Mr. Gay and I are to have free access when you are at court; for, as to Mr. Pope, he is not worth considering on such occasions. I am sorry I have no complaints to make of her royal highness; therefore, I think, I may let you tell her, "That every grain of virtue and good sense, in one of her rank, considering the bad education among flatterers and adorers, is worth a dozen in any inferiour person." Now, if what the world says be true, that she excels all other ladies at least a dozen times; then, multiply one dozen by the other, you ​will find the number to be one hundred and forty-four. If any one can say a civiler thing, let him; for I think it too much for me.
I have some title to be angry with you, for not commanding those who write to me to mention your remembrance. Can there be any thing more base, than to make me the first advances, and then be inconstant? It is very hard, that I must cross the sea, and ride two hundred miles, to reproach you in person; when, at the same time, I feel myself, with the most entire respect,
Madam, &c.
* ↑ Afterward countess of Suffolk.
* ↑ Gulliver's Travels, Voyage to Lilliput, chap. IV.
* ↑ See Mrs. Howard's letter, p. 213.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From Jonathan Swift to Esther Vanhomrigh - 13

TO THE SAME.
AUGUST 7, 1722.
I AM this hour leaving my present residence; and if I fix any where shall let you know it.
A long vacation. — Law lies asleep, and bad weather. How do you wear away the time? Is it among the groves and fields of your country seat, or among your cousins in town; or thinking in a train that will be sure to vex you; and then reaping, and forming teasing conclusions from mistaken thoughts. The best companion for you is a philosopher; whom you would regard as much as a sermon. I have read more trash since I left you, than would fill all your shelves, and am abundantly the better for it, though I scarce remember a syllable. What a foolish thing is time; and how foolish is man, who would be as angry if time stopped, as if it passed. But I will not proceed at this rate; for I am writing, and thinking myself fast into the spleen, which is the only thing I would not compliment you by imitating. So adieu till the next place I fix in.