"Should we miss but a tree where we used to be playing, Or find the wood cut where we sauntered a-Maying,— If the yew-seat’s away, or the ivy’s a-wanting, We hate the fine lawn and the new-fashioned planting. Each thing called improvement seems blackened with crimes, If it tears up one record of blissful old times."
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"When Home We Return", l. 7
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Susanna Blamire
1747 – 1794
Susanna Blamire (12 January 1747 – 1794) was an English Romantic poet, sometimes known as 'The Muse of Cumberland'.
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