The Heir of Abbotsville a Poem in Four Cantos On Men Manners of the Nineteen
The Heir of Abbotsville a Poem in Four Cantos On Men Manners of the Nineteen
Edward Mordaunt Spencer
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Absence the cause of regret — Abbotsville ; Helen — Oxford; cursory description thereof — A college life ; its baneful influence over St. Aubin — Helen's sorrow thereat, — Edward's majority : departure from college and advent in London— — The pleasures of the season, in which St. Aubin revels — Husband-catch- ing in the higher circles — St. Aubin becomes blaze, * meeting an old friend, Lord De Vere, is by him induced to enter a certain Pandemonium — The result — An habitue thereto — On a certai...n night thus engaged he receives intel- ligence of the sudden illness of his father, and summoning him immediately to Abbotsville — His delay ; the consequence, a quarrel ; a duel, and his own death — Interment of the body at Abbotsville, with that of the Earl, who expired ere his son's corpse arrived — Helen — On the eve succeeding the Poet visits the tomb, when he descries Helen approach and kneel beside the grave in prayer; appearing to totter, ere the Poet's hand can save, she falls a corpse upon her lover's grave, a victim to disappointment produced by paternal caprice— The moral — Concluding remarks to the reader, Who hath not felt, who may not e'en feel yet, The pangs which absence yieldeth of regret ?
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