[XIV.] This quatrain was extempore on observing this image, as I had often done, on the lawn of Rydal Mount.

It was first written down in the Album of my god-daughter, Rotha Quillinan.
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*_Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale_.

[XV.] This is a faithful picture of that amiable Lady as she then was.

The youthfulness of figure and demeanour and habits, which she retained in almost unprecedented degree, departed a very few years after, and she died without violent disease by gradual decay, before she reached the period of old age.