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PIECE OF THE TREE UNDER WHICH

Name: PIECE OF THE TREE UNDER WHICH
Author: THOMAS MOORE WROTE “THE MEETINGS OF THE WATERS”

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This is a nice item, a piece of the tree under which the Irish Poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) wrote his famous poem “The Meeting of the Waters”, which is the well-known beauty spot in the Vale of Avoca in County Wicklow in Ireland. The piece of wood measures just under 4cm in length, and is accompanied by two old handwritten notes in different hands, one is definitely early Victorian written in very old ink on old watermarked paper, the other probably from the early part of the last century. The piece has been kept in an old cardboard box from The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd.

Dealer Notes

“The Meeting Of The Waters” by Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

Yet it was not that nature had shed o'er the scene
Her purest of crystal and brightest of green;
'Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill,
Oh! no, -- it was something more exquisite still.

'Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms of nature improve,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.

Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace

Author THOMAS MOORE WROTE “THE MEETINGS OF THE WATERS”

Publisher VALE OF AVOCA

Price: £150.00

Offered by Andrew Cox

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