- Full Text
- In the deep corners of the grave
Love lingers though it cannot save.
Yes, ---- ----- of the dust
Affection springs and ever must.
- Listed on Page Number
- 295
- Sampler Worked By
- Eliza Pratt
- Date of Sampler
- 1822
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 211
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- lorio [James Gordon Brooks] “The Requiem,” The Minerva, 22 March 1823: Vol. 1, No. 50, pg. 100.
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/sim_minerva-or-literary-entertaining-and-scientific-journal_1823-03-22_1_50/mode/2up?q=%22affection+springs+and+ever+must%22
“Florio” was the pen name of James Gordon Brooks, a newspaper editor and poet.
Although it may seem that there is a conflict with the date of the sampler and the publication of this poem, the poem is dated 1821 in this source. An earlier publication was not found.
Line three in the poem reads:
“Yea, in the mansions of the dust,”