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　　LETTER 6

　　CHARLES LAMB TO S.T. COLERIDGE

　　The 5th July, 1796. [P.M. Same date.]

　　TO SARA AND HER SAMUEL

　　Was it so hard a thing? I did but ask

　　A fleeting holy day. One little week,

　　Or haply two, had bounded my request.

　　What if the jaded Steer, who all day long

　　Had borne the heat and labour of the plough,

　　When Evening came and her sweet cooling hour,

　　Should seek to trespass on a neighbour copse,

　　Where greener herbage waved, or clearer streams

　　Invited him to slake his burning thirst?

　　That Man were crabbed, who should say him Nay:

　　That Man were churlish, who should drive him thence!

　　A blessing light upon your heads, ye good,

　　Ye hospitable pair. I may not come,

　　To catch on Clifden's heights the summer gale:

　　I may not come, a pilgrim, to the "Vales

　　Where Avon winds," to taste th' inspiring waves

　　Which Shakespere drank, our British Helicon:

　　Or, with mine eye intent on Redcliffe towers,

　　To drop a tear for that Mysterious youth,

　　Cruelly slighted, who to London Walls,

　　In evil hour, shap'd his disastrous course.

　　Complaints, begone; begone, ill-omen'd thoughts—

　　For yet again, and lo! from Avon banks

　　Another "Minstrel" cometh! Youth beloved,

　　God and good angels guide thee on thy way,

　　And gentler fortunes wait the friends I love.

　　C.L. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5