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HOME of gay Thalia! greeting wide the view Where column, stage, and fretted arch combine, As touched by fairy wand - bedecked anew To grace loved Comedy's fair Columbine; Like wanderer, with commingling smiles and tears, Who turns to scan his field of bygone dreams, We, lingering, note how every scene endears- E'en barren parts bear mellow Memory's themes! Here Smith and Keach bequeathed a generous soil, Here nightly gleamed the Thespian glow- worm's spark, Ripe merit meeting histrionic toil, Where reaped a Barrett, Barron, Vincent, Clarke. Time's change to rue - the favored Past to cite, Befits old friends, of cherished joys bereft; Yet may we warrant all the present right While long our blithe, perennial Warren's left.1 |
1. The last line Is left unaltered, as the poem is to he regarded
only in
connection with the time of the event for which it was written.
| HARRY MURDOCH | CONTENTS | TO LAWRENCE BARRETT |
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