Epigram On An Old Lady Who Had Some Curious Notions Respecting The Soul

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Title:     Epigram On An Old Lady Who Had Some Curious Notions Respecting The Soul
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

IN Nottingham county there lives at Swan Green,[1]
As curst an old Lady as ever was seen;
And when she does die, which I hope will be soon,
She firmly believes she will go to the Moon!

1798.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 28.]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] "Swan Green" should be "Swine Green." It lay about a quarter of a mile to the east of St. James's Lane, where Byron lodged in 1799, at the house of a Mr. Gill. The name appears in a directory of 1799, but by 1815 it had been expunged or changed _euphoniæ gratiâ_. (See _A New Plan of the Town of Nottingham_, ... 1744.)

Moore took down "these rhymes" from the lips of Byron's nurse, May Gray, who regarded them as a first essay in the direction of poetry. He questioned their originality.

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Lord Byron's poem: Epigram On An Old Lady Who Had Some Curious Notions Respecting The Soul

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