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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The Philadelphia literary world will celebrate the launch of two new players today, April 10th: Kay Square Press, a new publishing company focused on Philadelphia-area artists, their stories, and their art; and Kay Square's first release, 'With the Rich and Mighty: Emlen Etting of Philadelphia' (ISBN: 978-0-9815129-0-7), a critical biography by Kenneth C. Kaleta.

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Books: Life and Remains of John Clare

J >> J. L. Cherry >> Life and Remains of John Clare







THE BANKS OF IVORY

'T was on the banks of Ivory, 'neath the hawthorn-scented shade,
Early one summer's morning, I met a lovely maid;
Her hair hung o'er her shoulders broad, her eyes like suns did
shine,
And on the banks of Ivory, O I wished the maid was mine.

Her face it wore the beauty of heaven's own broken mould;
The world's first charm seemed living still; her curls like hanks
of gold
Hung waving, and her eyes glittered timid as the dew,
When by the banks of Ivory I swore I loved her true.

"Kind sir," she said, "forsake me, while it is no pain to go,
For often after kissing and such wooing there comes woe;
And woman's heart is feeble; O I wish it were a stone;
So by the banks of Ivory I'd rather walk alone.

For learned seems your gallant speech, and noble is your trim,
And thus to court an humble maid is just to please your whim;
So go and seek some lady fair, as high in pedigree,
Nor stoop so low by Ivory to flatter one like me."

"In sooth, fair maid, you mock at me, for truth ne'er harboured
ill;
I will not wrong your purity; to love is all my will:
My hall looks over yonder groves; its lady you shall be,
For on the banks of Ivory I'm glad I met with thee."

He put his hands unto his lips, and whistled loud and shrill,
And thirty six well-armed men came at their master's will,
Said he "I've flattered maids full long, but now the time is past,
And the bonny hills of Ivory a lady own at last.

My steed's back ne'er was graced for a lady's seat before;
Fear not his speed; I'll guard thee, love, till we ride o'er the
moor,
To seek the priest, and wed, and love until the day we die."
So she that was but poor before is Lady Ivory.




ENDNOTES

[1]
The Editor has pleasure in acknowledging the kindness of Miss James
of Theddingworth, and Miss Powell, of Thame. The former lady
obligingly sent him the manuscript of a lecture on "Dryden and Clare"
by her brother, the late Rev. T. James, of Theddingworth, and the
latter several letters written by Clare to Mr. Octavius Gilchrist.

[2]
Among those who at this time or subsequently made Clare presents of
books were Lord Radstock, Bishop Marsh, Mrs. Emmerson, Sir Walter
Scott, Robert Bloomfield, Mr. Gilchrist, Lord Milton, Messrs. Taylor
& Ilessey, Messrs. Smith, Elder, & Co, Charles Lamb, Henry Eehnes,
Lady Sophia Pierrepoint, the Rev. H. P. Cary, E. V. Rippingille,
Allan Cunningham, Geo. Barley, Sir Charles A. Elton, William Gifford,
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, James Montgomery, E. Drury, Alaric A. Watts,
William Hone &c.

Clare's little library, consisting of 500 volumes, was purchased from
his widow after his death, and placed in the Northampton Museum.

[3]
Mr. S. C. Hall kindly informs me that Mrs. Emmerson "was a handsome,
graceful, and accomplished lady." Her letters show that she was
Clare's senior by eleven or twelve years.--ED.

[4]
Coleridge's definition of watchmen.

[5]
Mr. How's connection with the firm of Whittaker & Co. terminated
before the appearance of the "Rural Muse," but he brought out the
volume, through them, on his own account, and twenty years afterwards
transferred the copyright to Mr. Taylor, who, in 1854, contemplated
the re-issue of Clare's poems.

[6]
The oft-repeated statements are incorrect, that the Northampton
County Lunatic Asylum is a "pauper asylum," that Clare was "a pauper
lunatic," and that Earl Fitzwilliam expressed the wish that he should
have "a pauper funeral." The Fitzwilliams have been kind and generous
friends of Clare and his family for nearly fifty years, and it is not
to be credited that any member of that house ever said anything of
the kind. It may be added that Earl Spencer continued his annuity of
L10 to Mrs. Clare until her death on Feb. 5th, 1871. In this
connection it should also be noted that the Rev. Charles Mossop, of
Etton, and Mr. and Mrs. Bellars, of Helpstone, took a lively interest
in the welfare of Mrs. Clare and her family, and in May, 1864, Mr.
Bellars purchased the poet's cottage at Helpstone and has set it
apart for charitable uses. Lastly, Mr. Joseph Whitaker, of London, in
whom is vested the copyright in Clare's poems, paid Mrs. Clare a
handsome annuity for the last six or seven years of her life.