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　　TO MARGARET W——

　　Margaret, in happy hour

　　Christen'd from that humble flower

　　Which we a daisy 注释标题 Marguerite, in French, signifies a daisy. [Note in Athenaeum.] call!

　　May thy pretty name-sake be

　　In all things a type of thee,

　　And image thee in all.

　　To Margaret W——

　　Like it you show a modest face,

　　An unpretending native grace;—

　　The tulip, and the pink,

　　The china and the damask rose,

　　And every flaunting flower that blows,

　　In the comparing shrink.

　　Of lowly fields you think no scorn;

　　Yet gayest gardens would adorn,

　　And grace, wherever set.

　　Home-seated in your lonely bower,

　　Or wedded—a transplanted flower—

　　I bless you, Margaret!

　　EDMONTON, 8_th October_, 1834.

　　ADDITIONAL ALBUM VERSES AND ACROSTICS

　　WHAT IS AN ALBUM?

　　'Tis a Book kept by modern Young Ladies for show,

　　Of which their plain grandmothers nothing did know.

　　'Tis a medley of scraps, fine verse, and fine prose,

　　And some things not very like either, God knows.

　　The soft First Effusions of Beaux and of Belles,

　　Of future LORD BYRONS, and sweet L.E.L.'s;

　　Where wise folk and simple both equally shine,

　　And you write your nonsense, that I may write mine.

　　Stick in a fine landscape, to make a display,

　　A flower-piece, a foreground, all tinted so gay,

　　As NATURE herself (could she see them) would strike

　　With envy, to think that she ne'er did the like:

　　And since some LAVATERS, with head-pieces comical,

　　Have pronounc'd people's hands to be physiognomical,

　　Be sure that you stuff it with AUTOGRAPHS plenty,

　　All framed to a pattern, so stiff, and so dainty.

　　They no more resemble folks' every-day writing,

　　Than lines penn'd with pains do extemp'rel enditing;

　　Or the natural countenance (pardon the stricture)

　　The faces we make when we sit for our picture.

　　Thus you have, dearest EMMA, an ALBUM complete—

　　Which may you live to finish, and I live to see it;

　　And since you began it for innocent ends,

　　May it swell, and grow bigger each day with new friends,

　　Who shall set down kind names, as a token and test,

　　As I my poor autograph sign with the rest. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4