Sterling A(n)g(el)

[Arthur Neuendorffer]

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Sweet swan of Avon! what a sight it were
To see thee in our waters yeT appeaRe,
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And mAke thoS(e) fligHts upon t(He) bankes of Tha[M]es,
That so did t[A]ke Eliza, and ou[R] James !
But stay, [I] see thee in the (He)(Mi)*SPHERE*
Advanc'd, and made a Constellation there !
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. A n d m A k e t h o S (e)f
. l i g H t s u p o n t (H e)
. b a n k e s o f T h a [M]e
. s T h a t s o d i d t [A]k
. e E l i z a a n d o u [R]J
. a m e s B u t s t a y [I]s
. e e t h e e i n t h e (H e)
. (M i)*S P H E R E*
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[MARI(He)] ELS skip= 13
Prob. at end of poem ~ 1 in 2,525

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[MARI(He)] stands for the "Sweet swan of Avon!"
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THE LA. [MARI]e (He)rbert
COUNTESSE OF PEMBROOKE.
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[M]r. William SHAKESPE[A|r}ES
COMEDIES, HISTO[R|i}ES, & TRAGEDIES.
Publ[I|s}hed according to t(He) True Originall Co<PIES>
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. [M]r. W i l l i a m S (H) A K <E S> P(E)
. [A|r} E S C o m e d i (E) s,H <I> s t(O)
. [R|i} e s&T r a g e d (I) e s <P> u b l
. [I|s} h e d a c c o r (D) i n g t o t
. (H e) T r u e O r i g (I) n a l l C o
. <P I E S>.
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[MARI(He)] ELS skip= 17
Prob. in 17 array ~ 1 in 4174
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. T O T H E (O)N L I E B E G E T T(E)
. R O F T H (E)S E I N S V I N G S(O)
. N N E T S [M]R W H A L L {H} A P P I
. N E S S E [A]N D T H A T {E} T E R N
. I T I E P [R]O M I S E D {B} Y O V R
. E V E R L [I]V I N G P O {E} T W I S
. H E T H T (H e) W E L L W I S H I N
. G A D V E N T V R E R I N S E T T
. I N G F O R T H T T

[MARI(He)] ELS skip= 17
Prob. in 17 array ~ 1 in 10,000
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'* Shakespeare.'" by JOHN STERLING (1839)

<<How little fades from earth when sink to rest
The hours and cares that moved a great man's breast !
Though nought of all we saw the grave may spare,
His life pervades the world's impregnate air ;
Though *SHAKESPEARE'S DUST* beneath our footsteps lies.
His spirit breathes amid his native skies ;
With meaning won from him *for EVER glows*
Each air that England feels, and *STAR* it knows ;
His whispered words from many a mother's voice
Can make her sleeping child in *DREAMS* rejoice,
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And gleams fro(M) *SPHERES* (He) f(i)rst conjo[I]ned to earth
A[R]e blent with r[A]ys of each new [M]orning's birth.>>
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. A n d g l e a m s f r o
. (M)*S P H E R E S* (H e) f(i)
. r s t c o n j o [I]n e d
. t o e a r t h A [R]e b l
. e n t w i t h r [A]y s o
. f e a c h n e w [M]o r n
. i n g'sb i r t h.
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[MARI(He)] ELS skip= -12
Prob. at start of poem ~ 1 in 440
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John Sterling (author)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

<<John Sterling (20 July 1806 - 18 September 1844), was a Scottish author. Sterling corresponded with John Stuart Mill, who had attended the informal beginnings of his 'Sterling Club'. John Sterling's papers were given to the joint care of Thomas Carlyle and Hare.

Sterling was born at Kames Castle on the Isle of Bute, the son of Edward Sterling. After studying for a year at the University of Glasgow, he in 1824 entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had for tutor Julius Charles Hare. At Cambridge he took part in the debates of the Cambridge Union Society, and became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, forming friendships with Frederick Denison Maurice and Richard Trench. He moved to Trinity Hall with the intention of graduating in law, but left the university without taking a degree.

During the next four years Sterling resided chiefly in London, employing himself actively in literature and making a number of literary friends. With F. D. Maurice he purchased the Athenaeum magazine in 1828 from James Silk Buckingham, but the enterprise was not a financial success. He also formed an intimacy with the Spanish revolutionist General Torrijos, in whose unfortunate expedition he took an active interest. But he did not accompany it, as he was kept in England by his marriage to Susannah, daughter of Lieutenant-General Charles Barton (1760-1819) and his wife Susannah.

Shortly after his marriage in 1830 symptoms of tuberculosis induced him to take up his residence in the island of St Vincent, where he had inherited some property, and he remained there fifteen months before returning to England. After spending some time on the Continent in June 1834 he was ordained and became curate at Hurstmonceux, where his old tutor Julius Hare was vicar. Acting on the advice of his physician he resigned his clerical duties in the following February, but, according to Carlyle, the primary cause was a divergence from the opinions of the Church. There remained to him the "resource of the pen," but, having to "live all the rest of his days as in continual flight for his very existence," his literary achievements were necessarily fragmentary.

Sterling published in 1833 Arthur Coningsby, a novel, which attracted little attention, and his Poems (1839), the Election, a Poem (1841), and Strafford, a tragedy (1843), were not more successful. Essays and Tales, by John Sterling collected and edited, with a memoir of his life, by Julius Charles Hare, appeared in 1848 in two volumes. Carlyle was dissatisfied with the Memoir and wrote a vivid Life (1851).

His son, Major-General John Barton Sterling (1840-1926), after entering the navy, went into the army in 1861, and had a distinguished career (wounded at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882), both as a soldier and as a writer on military subjects. He commanded the Coldstream Guards until his retirement in 1901. He was a member of the Athenaeum Club and the Royal Yacht Squadron.
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Art Neuendorffer