...turmoiling, ever and aye He, and his thoughts, keep pensive working-day. Charles Lamb THE FAMILY NAME WHAT reason first imposed thee, gentle name, Name...first amid the merry mocks And arch allusions of his fellow swains. Perchance from Salem's holier fields returned, With glory gotten on the heads abhorr'd...

...But ill the mighty debt of love I owe, Mary, to thee, my sister, and my friend. 110. The Family Name What reason first imposed thee, gentle name, Name...first amid the merry mocks And arch allusions of his fellow swains. Perchance from Salem's holier fields returned, With glory gotten on the heads abhorred...

...strain—his Sonnet' On the Family Name' is another great favourite of ours:— Worhi, vol.ip32. ' What reason first imposed thee, gentle name,— Name...first amid the merry mocks And arch allusions of his fellow swains. Perchance from Salera's holier fields return'd, With glory gotten on the heads abhorr'd...

...very different strain — his Sonnet ' On the Family Name ' is another great favourite of ours : — ' What reason first imposed thee, gentle name, — Name...first amid the merry mocks And arch allusions of his fellow swains. Perchance from Salem's holier fields return'd, With glory gotten on the heads abhorr'd...

...7. Here came " A timid grace." See page 7. Here came " If from my lips." See page 8. THE FAMILY NAME What reason first imposed thee, gentle name, Name...first amid the merry mocks And arch allusions of his fellow swains. Perchance from Salem's holier fields returned, With glory gotten on the heads abhorr'd...

...speculations on the matter are embodied in a characteristic sonnet : — ' What reason first imposed thy gentle name, Name that my father bore, and his sire's sire, Without reproach ] We truce our stream no higher ; And I, a childless man, may end the same. Perhaps some shepherd on Lincolniau...