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The
original poem that appeared in the Rockingham
Sentinel, March 1888.
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The
poem was probably written around the time of
William Agar's portrait of the Prince's Lodge
(Rotunda) in 1839. The poem appeared in the
Rockingham Sentinel in March 1888. Fenerty wrote
that the poem was written about fifty years
prior (placing it around 1838 - 1839). In the
Stewart manuscript, Fenerty called the poem
The Prince's Lodge. This is a good
indicator as to when the manuscript was written
(a year and a half later Robert Emmerson died
- who appears on the manuscript too - and Fenerty
renames his poem - making further changes).
The poem is not all that different, but there
were alterations made to the 1888 version (as
seen in the manuscript). For example he wrote
and crossed out the original line: "Where
the notes of soft music enchanted the air."
and replaced "enchanted" with "once
navished" The poem remarks on the decay
of the Prince's Lodge. This is Fenerty's style
in his poetry; he often writes a poem to commemorate
something or someone, or voices an opinion that
calls for action on something (Sir Provo Wallis;
a monument, The Sentinel Rose; guarding a child,
Terra Nova; calling for NFL, Patrician and Plebeian;
demanding a monument for Gray, The Relic; leave
the ship to history and not for decoration).
Fenerty speaks up after a death (Burke and Wills,
Montgomery, Frederick Fenerty, Emmerson, To
a Rich Miser). Passing Away is another In Memoriam
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