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FAMOUS SONGS
appears in the original song. Here is a copy of it;
*' Oh ! but for one short hour !
A respite however brief 1 No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief: A little weeping would ease my heart,
But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop
Hinders needle and thread 1''
The chief items of these interesting particu-lars were put together and written on Thomas Hood's own table, the identical one round which have gathered many of the great literary men of the past. Miss Broderip sat near to answer any question that might be put to her, or to hand a volume from the poet's library which might be of service. In a room in Miss Brod-erip's house is the oil painting, " life-size," a splendid likeness of the poet himself, and in the hall is the historical bust from which so many engravings have been taken, and which was the model for the tomb at Kensal Green. May was an eventful month to the subject of this sketch. He was born on the 23rd of May, 1799; married on the 5th of May, 1824; on the 1st of May, 1845—May-Day—he w a s last conscious; on the 3rd he died, and on the 10th he was buried.
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