[36] Liking and Loving – Irregular Verses, addressed to a Child [Version C of “Loving and Liking”]

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You may not  Say not you love a roasted fowl;
But you may love a screaming owl,
Or even a spotted ^^slimy^ ^toad,^^  black unwieldy toad
That crawls from his secure abode
Within your mosssy garden wall,
When evening dews begin to fall.
You may not love a dainty frog X
Drawn by the  as in France Frenchman from his fen or bog
When ^ in  Served of^ in a a fricasse or stew
He floats  Served up as  as  or exquisite delicate ragout;
– But you may love him in his pool
Where; though he ne’er was put to school
He swims by perfect law of Nature,
A model for a human creature,
Glancing amid the water bright,
And sending upward sparkling lightx
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ for the other side
And you may love the strawberry flower
And love the strawberry in its bower
But when up-heaped on the China dish X  the fruit on which you gazed
As berries  fromAs floating like a lifeless fish  With pleasure to your lip is raised delicate
Say not you love the deliciouselegant eleganttreat;
But like it, enjoy it, and thankfully eat
 
⟨But when the fruit, on which you gazed  in its bower
With pleasure, to your lips is raised
Say not &,⟩

 

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Loving & Liking
Irregular Verses
Addressed to a Child
There’s more in words than I can teach,
But listen, Child! – I would not preach,
Yet would I give some plain directions,
To guide your speech and your affections.

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There’s more in words than I can [illegible]
–Tell me now, Child, that I would preach
Though I will but give some plain directions
To guide your speech and your affections.
 
Say not dear child I’m going to preach

 

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Nor blush if o’er your that heart be stealing
A love for things that have no feeling
Nor can repay, by loving you,
Aught that your care for them may do
The peeping rose, that first you spied
May fill your breast with joyful pride
And you may love the strawberry flower &c

 

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Long may you love your pensioner mouse,
Though one of a tribe that torment the house,
Nor detest the dislike, for her cruel sport, of the cat
That deadly foe of both mouse and rat
But think of her beautiful gliding form,
Her treat that would not crush a worm,
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Long may you love your pensioner mouse,
Though one of a tribe that torment the house!
Nor detest the dislike, for her cruel sport, of the cat
That deadly foe of both mouse and rat
Remember she follows the law of her Kind;
And Instinct is neither wayward nor blind.
Then think of her beautiful gliding form,
And her soothing song by the winter fire;
Soft as the dying throb of the lyre.
I would not circumscribe your love;
It may soar with the eagle and brood with the dove[?]
May pierce the earth with patient mole
Or track the hedgehog to his hole
Loving and liking are the solace of life
To love or to like is the solace of life
They foster all joy, & extinguish all strife
Rocks the cradle of joy, is the death-bed of strife” 
You love your Father and your Mother,
Your grown-up, and your baby Brother,
Your love your Sister and your Friends,
And countless blessings which God sends,
You live each moment of your day;
They lead you on to full content.
And Likings many fresh and innocent,

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That store the mind, the memory feed,
And prompt to many a gentle deed:
But Likings come, and pass away;
‘Tis Love that remains till our latest day:
Our heavenward guide is holy love,
And it will be our bliss with Saints above
 

 

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And when the Bird with scarlet breast
Hops round the carpet, a bold guest
Though Susan make an angry stir
To scare him as a trespasser
Do you step forth & take his part
Encouraged by a loving heart
Nor blush if o’er that heart be stealing

 

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Introduction to Poems from the Commonplace Book (DCMS 120)
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Table of Contents: Ordering the Commonplace Book Poems (DCMS 120)
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Table of Contents 1A: Starting from Front Cover
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Table of Contents 1B: Starting from Back Cover
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Table of Contents 2: Sorted by Poem (from Its First Appearance in the Notebook)
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[1] [A Two Fold Harmony is Here]
[2] Lines addressed to Joanna Hutchinson from Gwerndovenant June 1826
[3] [Version A]
[4] A Holiday at Gwerndovennant Irregular Stanzas [Version B]
[5] Grasmere - A Fragment [Version A]
[6] [Lines written (rather say begun)]
[7] A Sketch
[8] A Cottage in Grasmere Vale A Fragment [Version B of Grasmere - A Fragment]
[9] After recollections at sight of the same Cottage. [Version C of Grasmere - A Fragment]
[10] A Winter's Ramble in Grasmere Vale [Version D of Grasmere - A Fragment]
[11] To Julia Marshall - A Fragment [Version A]
[12] Lines intended for my Niece's Album [Version A]
[13] To Dora Wordsworth [Version B of "Lines intended for my Niece's Album"]
[14] Lines intended for Edith Southey's album
[15] Floating Island at Hawkhead, An Incident in the schemes of Nature
[16] Thoughts on my sickbed
[17] [Irregular Verses] [Version B of To Julia Marshall—A Fragment]
[18] To E.C.
[19] Fragment Christmas-day –
[20] [Untitled Fragment]
[21] Fragments Xmas day
[22] [Version B of "Lines Written (rather say begun)"].
[23] To D.
[24] [Lines written (rather say begun) on the morning of Sunday April 6th, the third approach of Spring-time since my illness began. It was a morning of surpassing beauty. [Version C of “Lines Written (rather say begun)”]
[25] On a most beautiful Sunday morning, April 1824 [Version D of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[26] [Version E of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[27] [Version F of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[28] To. ["To things the fairest in this world"]
[29] [To Sarah Foxcroft's Infant]
[30] ["When shall I tread your garden path?"]
[31] [Fragment Loving and Liking; “Dear Child I would not still be teaching”]
[32] Lines written (rather begun) on the morning of Sunday, April 6th, the third approach of Spring-time since my illnes began. [Version G of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[33] Loving & Liking [Version B or "Loving and Liking. Irregular verses addressed to a child.]
[34] Lines to Dora H. [Version A]
[35] Lines to Dora H. [Version B]
[36] Liking and Loving – Irregular Verses, addressed to a Child [Version C of “Loving and Liking”]
[37] A Tribute to the memory of the Revd John Curwen