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　　LETTER 515

　　CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON

　　Enfield, Tuesday. [P.M. May 12, 1830.]

　　Dear M. I dined with your and my Rogers at Mr. Gary's yesterday. Gary consulted me on the proper bookseller to offer a Lady's MS novel to. I said I would write to you. But I wish you would call on the Translator of Dante at the British Museum, and talk with him. He is the pleasantest of clergymen. I told him of all Rogers's handsome behaviour to you, and you are already no stranger. Go. I made Rogers laugh about your Nightingale sonnet, not having heard one. 'Tis a good sonnet notwithstanding. You shall have the books shortly.

　　C.L.

　　[Samuel Rogers had just lent Moxon £500 on which to commence publisher.

　　Moxon had dedicated his first book to Rogers. This is Moxon's "Sonnet to the Nightingale," but I cannot explain why Rogers laughed:—

　　Lone midnight-soothing melancholy bird,

　　That send'st such music to my sleepless soul,

　　Chaining her faculties in fast controul,

　　Few listen to thy song; yet I have heard,

　　When Man and Nature slept, nor aspen stirred,

　　Thy mournful voice, sweet vigil of the sleeping

　　And liken'd thee to some angelic mind,

　　That sits and mourns for erring mortals weeping.

　　The genius, not of groves, but of mankind,

　　Watch at this solemn hour o'er millions keeping.

　　In Eden's bowers, as mighty poets tell,

　　Did'st thou repeat, as now that wailing call—

　　Those sorrowing notes might seem, sad Philomel,

　　Prophetic to have mourned of man the fall.] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6