[36] Liking and Loving [Version C of “Loving and Liking”]

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Liking and Loving  Irregular Verses, addressed 
           To a Child
 
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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Sparkling light.

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,
And
 
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 And Likings many fresh and innocent,
 
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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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” 
 

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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

[Page f.2r (from back of notebook) "Liking and Loving" [Version C of "Loving and Liking" and "Miss Barker's White Salve" and "Drawing Salve"]

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

[Page f.2v (from back of notebook) "Newspaper clippings: 'An Effectual Cure for the Cholera'"]
[Page f.3r (from back of notebook) "Chatsworth! how strange a contrast doth the pride"]
[Page f.3v (from back of notebook) "Route copied from Mr Elwood’s overland journey to India"]
[Page f.4r (from back of notebook) "To Zoe King - Clifton’ Rydal Mount June 17th 1823 Sara Coleridge."]
[Page f.4v (from back of notebook) "Epitaph on Lord Kolle"]
[Page f.5r (from back of notebook) "[Epitaph to the memory of an old and faithful Parishioner of Bremhill - By the Revd. W.L. Bowles and 'To—–' by William Wordsworth]"]
[Page f.5v (from back of notebook) "[Untitled verse by William Wordsworth]"]
[Page f.6r (from back of notebook)] "[Untitled verse by William Wordsworth]"
[Page f.6v (from back of notebook)] "Newspaper clipping of 'Sonnet' by A. du Vere"
[Page f.7r - 12v (f.8 is a stub) (from back of notebook) "Extracts from 'Forest Scenes & Incidents in the Wilds of North America'"]
[Page f.7v (from back of notebook) "Blank."]
[Page f.12v - 13r (from back of notebook) "Drawings of Garden."]
[Page f.13v (from back of notebook) "Copied from the 'John Bull' of Sunday June 12th 1831 at the request of WW senior'" and "Extract from a speech of Edmund Burke in the House of Commons - Febry 11th 1780"]
[Page f.14r (from back of notebook) "From a New York Newspaper [rectangle of page is cut from bottom half]"]
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