To Louis Kossuth

Source - Inventory 56A / Sequence 88

How shall we welcome thee, whose name  | Is heard on every tongue?; | How shall we welcome thee, whose fame | Through all free lands hath rung? | The ruler of a glorious land, | The laurel round thy brow; | The banished from thy fatherland, | Kutayeh's exile now.

How shall we welcome thee, whose life | Such changing scenes hath known? | The seat of power-the battle strife- | Kutayeh's fortress alone. | How shall we hail thy advent here, | Among true hearts and free? | In silence, or with echoing cheer, | Say, shall we welcome thee?

In silence deep yet eloquent | First gaze upon his face, | Who strove with patriot zeal to raise | The noble Magyar race. | Think of his land down-trodden, | His home deserted now, | And sadly, silently entwine | The cypress round his brow.

Then let Britannia's welcoming | Ring out-cheer after cheer,- | Europe shall catch the echoes, | Tyrants and serfs shall hear. | Before his true nobility | Let earth's great names bow down; | An exile, yet a conqueror,- | Bring forth the laurel crown.

NOTE:- The poem is taken from an undated newspaper cutting, or similar type of publication, possibly of English or British origin, dating to circa 1850-1900. It appears to refer to Lajos (Louis) Kossuth (1802-1894) a Hungarian patriot. See The Encylopædia Britannica, 11th edition, 1911, vol. 15, pps.916-918.

Untitled poem on Sue's bridal day

Source - Inventory 56A, Sequence 112

Dear Sue, from this thy Bridal day, | May "Plenty" crown thy Life's pathway; | May every earthly Joy be thine, | Thy Home the source of "Peace" benign; | Thy Lover, may he prove to be, | A Husband true, adoring thee; | His rule thy trust unfelt, unseen, |  By homage making thee his Queen; | His Care a bright, and golden band, | Unstinting * both in heart and hand; | May "Bear and Forbear" rule ye ever, | In "Littles" each, try right endeavour; | Whilst for thy pattern, and her worth, | Copy the one who gave thee birth; | Then storm or sunshine, on thine head may fall, | For then, like Her, by faith will conquer all.                      MR. - July 15th. (18)79

NOTE:- The identity of the author aside from the initials M.R. is unknown, but may have been English. The identity of the recipient, "Sue" is also not known, except that several documents in Inventory 67 that are possibly connected, refer to a Miss Susan Elwes. Her address between 1877 & 1878 is variously given as Congham House, King's Lynn, Norfolk, and Stackley, Leicester and Brussels.

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