In The Album Of A Clergyman's Lady

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Title:     In The Album Of A Clergyman's Lady
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

An Album is a Garden, not for show
Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.
A Cabinet of curious porcelain, where
No fancy enters, but what's rich or rare.
A Chapel, where mere ornamental things
Are pure as crowns of saints, or angels' wings.
A List of living friends; a holier Room
For names of some since mouldering in the tomb,
Whose blooming memories life's cold laws survive;
And, dead elsewhere, they here yet speak, and live.
Such, and so tender, should an Album be;
And, Lady, such I wish this book to thee.

[The end]
Charles Lamb's poem: In The Album Of A Clergyman's Lady

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