THOMAS MOORE.
ALBUM OF VERSES. An album containing verses by Thomas Moore has just come to. light. It has drawn 11 letter to the London "Times" from Mrs E. R. Beckingham, who knew the poet as a child. Tlie great song writer was her grandfather's tenant. He was a diminutive figure, she says, always called Tommy, and far from robust; but when smallpox came to the village of BromhaTn he sent all his household away and stayed to nurso the sick and comfort the dying. Moore was a hero as well as a poet, but his friends could smile at him as well as admire him. lie was so absentminded that sometimes he would throw his handkerchief into the fire, and once Mrs Beckingham heard him say this concerning a small dinner party: "Sir Joshua Barlow was one, the two Maquires were two, I was three, and who was the fourth?" It was some time before he solved the mystery. His arithmetic was not very good, but we can easily forgive him that for the sake of his songs. Quite a lot of us can count four, but only Moore could write such melodies as "She is Far from the Land," and "Believe Me it' all those Endearing Young Charms."
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1892, 24 May 1933, Page 7
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210THOMAS MOORE. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1892, 24 May 1933, Page 7
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