Add. MS a/742
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c. 1847
Part of Additional Manuscripts a
Twenty-four line poem in six stanzas, beginning "Soft be the voice & friendly that rebukes". According to Maria Theresa Earle's Memoirs and Memories (1911), it was written by Sir Henry Taylor for Caroline Norton, who he admired, after she had suffered a period of illness.
Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886), knight, poet and public servant