The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part 1: 1791-1797 A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 Lynda Pratt Romantic Circles General Editor, Neil Fraistat General Editor, Steven E. Jones General Editor, Carl Stahmer Technical Editor Laura Mandell 2009-03-15 rce102 letterEEd.26.102 Romantic Circles, http://www.rc.umd.edu, University of Maryland College Park, MD March 15, 2009

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National Library of Wales, MS 4819E. Previously published: Crystal Tilney, ‘An unpublished Southey fragment in the National Library’, National Library of Wales Journal, 9 (1955–6), 149–156.

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102. Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn [fragment], [between c. 3–9 September 1794] MS: National Library of Wales, MS 4819EPreviously published: Crystal Tilney, ‘An unpublished Southey fragment in the National Library’, National Library of Wales Journal, 9 (1955–6), 149–156.

[MS missing]magine a piece tolerable which represents both parties [MS missing] their own opinions & makes BarrereThe French revolutionary Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755–1841), a Jacobin who turned against Robespierre in 1794. the only villain [MS missing]believe me when I say we wrote a good drama. the [MS missing] to lie entirely in the Convention. Coleridge took [MS missing] last Tuesday to London to sell it or print it — [MS missing] LecoridgeAn anagram of ‘Coleridge’. The Fall of Robespierre (1794) was published under Coleridge’s name. of both Universities. vexed as I really [MS missing]th of RobespierreMaximilien François Marie Odenthalius Isidore de Robespierre (1758–1794). I never laughed more than whilst [MS missing] the subject.

my friendly remembrances to [MS missing]les Bunbury!

you will receive two or three [MS missing] three weeks. as for Joan circumstances [MS missing]t & you will serve me essentially by getting [MS missing] been long burthensome to my friends — thank [MS missing]nds & on the banks of the Suquehannah [MS missing]ir & break the bread of independance. can [MS missing]lking with Ariste in the evening, & looking [MS missing] pleasure the tranquillity of closing day [MS missing] source of comfort”?

Written this morning on the road to Bath.A revised version was published in Southey’s Poems (1797).

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With many a weary step at length I gain Thy summit Lansdown; & the cool breeze plays Gratefully round my brow, as hence the gaze Returns to dwell upon the journied plain. Twas a long way & tedious, tho to the eye Fair is the extended vale, & fair to view The varied trees of many a fading hue That rustle as the wild wind passes by. Even so it fares with man — with fond delight Back oer the distanced days he turns his sight And weeps to think they will return no more. Far be from me in such sad thoughts to roam For surely I ere-long shall reach my home And pleasant is the way that lies before.

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Sweet is the opening morn when all around <oer the sky>A revised version was published in Southey’s Poems (1797). The new-born Sun expands his roseate ray — And lovely to the musing Minstrels eye Sinks the last splendor of departing day. But lovelier is the smile of one we love Than all the charms in Natures ample sway And sweeter than the music of the grove The voice that bids us welcome. such delight Be ours Ariste on the distant shore. When all the labour of the day is oer Wilt thou not smile & welcome? at thy sight My heart will bound to rapture! far removd To woodland scenes where Care intrudes n[MS missing] We must be blest beloving & belovd.

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