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　　LETTER 479

　　CHARLES LAMB TO SAMUEL ROGERS

　　Chase, Enfield: 22nd Mar., 1829.

　　My dear Sir,—I have but lately learned, by letter from Mr. Moxon, the death of your brother. For the little I had seen of him, I greatly respected him. I do not even know how recent your loss may have been, and hope that I do not unseasonably present you with a few lines suggested to me this morning by the thought of him. I beg to be most kindly remembered to your remaining brother, and to Miss Rogers.

　　Your's truly, CHARLES LAMB.

　　Rogers, of all the men that I have known

　　But slightly, who have died, your brother's loss

　　Touched me most sensibly. There came across

　　My mind an image of the cordial tone

　　Of your fraternal meetings, where a guest

　　I more than once have sate; and grieve to think,

　　That of that threefold cord one precious link

　　By Death's rude hand is sever'd from the rest.

　　Of our old gentry he appear'd a stem;

　　A magistrate who, while the evil-doer

　　He kept in terror, could respect the poor,

　　And not for every trifle harass them—

　　As some, divine and laic, too oft do.

　　This man's a private loss and public too.

　　[Daniel Rogers, the banker's elder brother, had just died.] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6