Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-09-10
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A VISIT TO THE GRAVE OF BYRON.

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A correspondent Of the Courier and En-
quirer daily journal, writing from Noting
ham, England, gives very interesting ac-
coup, of a visi, which he paid to ''The
! Homes and the Graves of Byron and Mary
Chaworth." Speaking Of his visi, to the
church where Byron lies buried, the writer
saws: I'll stood for some time medisling on
the changes and iruobles Of the life of him
whose ashes were beneath my feet. A
beautiful young girl Of seventeen summers,
with an eye blue as heaven and face
expressive Of sinless purity. was my guide.
She was the daughter of the parish clerk,
and during her fathers absence waited on
strangers TO the tomb. ] recorded my name
in book she kept for visitors, and on look
ing over it noticed the names Of great
number Of Americans. ! asked her if she
saw many OF my c"untrymen. to which she
replied in the affirmative. More Of them
visit Hucknall than of any other foreigners,
and all take great interest in everything re-
been here: = asked. No. said she, 'nor
within my recollection; but last summer
Lady Lovelace was here, Byron's daughter.
She came with Mrs. Wildman, the lady Of
The present occupant Of News,ead Abbey
When she came in she burst into flood of
tears. and wep, long and audibly. 1t was
an affecting scene, sir, and could not help
bu. weep with her. She stood sometime
leaning over lhe vault agaIns; the tablet, and
sighed as though her heart would break
| Ay, sir, she loved her father; and could he
have seen her, and known her affection for
him, he would have been better and hap
pier man. She never came but once 10 the
grave, and then it was difficult thing to
ge, her away. Ibelieve she grew i'll in con-
| sequence of grief after that visit, and it was
deemed prudent not TO renew it, How in
fini,ely touching are the concluding s,anzas
of The third canto of"Childe Harold" when
taken in connection with This affecting an
ecdo,e Familiar though they may be, we
cannot resist the inclination 10 quote them
! here:
''My daughter! with thy name this song began
| My daughter with thy name thus much shall end
| see thee not-I hear thee not-but none
Can be so Wrapt in thee thou art the friend
Ger whom the shadows of far years extend
Albeit my brow thou never shouldst behold,
| My voice shall with thy future visions blend,
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a token and tone, eren from thy fathers mould
'sTo aid thy mind development; to watch
Thy dawn of little joys; to sit and see
Almost thy very growth to view thee catch
knowledge of objects-wonders yet to thee
| To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee,
| And print on thy soft cheek parents kiss
This it should seem, was not reserved for me
Yet this was in my nature as it is,
know not ,chai is there, yet something like to this
::Yet though dull hate as duty should be taught,
| know that thou wilt love me !; though my name
Should be shut from thee, spell still fraught
| With desolatIon-and broken claim
| Though the grave closed between u.s. 'twere the
same,
| Enolc that thou wilt love me, though to drain
Ny blood from out thy being were aim,
And an attainment-all would be in vain:
Still thou woudst love me, still that more than life
retain.
''The child of love, though born in bitterness
And nurtured in CONFUSION of thy sire
These were the elements-and thine no less
As yet such are around thce-but thy fire
Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher
Sweet be thy Graded slumbers! O'cr the sea
And from the mountains where | now respire,
Fain would watt such blessings unto thee
As, with sign, | deem thou might S have been to
me!''
We have always believed, and always
shall believe, that if Lady Byron had no,
been as unloading as a statue and colder
than an icicle, Byron would never have been
the desoa'e man he became Righ. glad
are we 10 find that the s'dull hae' for the
father was nculca,ed upon the daughter with
olilte effect. The following passage, touch.
ing Byron's frs. and only true love, will be
read with interest: "Below Nottingham on
the Trent, here pretty and romantic stream
there is large estate known as 'CoIwicl
IIaIl.' 1t is the property of the Muster.
family, and the buriaI-placc Of Mary Cha.
worth. During the reform riots in the town
some wears ago, at which time Notlipphau