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Anna Seward

Anna Seward was born in Eyam, Derbyshire, on December 12, 1742. Her father, Thomas Seward, was the rector of Eyam, and her mother, Elizabeth Hunter, was the daughter of John Hunter, Samuel Johnson’s

December Morning

by Anna Seward (1742–1809)

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 I love to rise ere gleams the tardy light, 
  Winter's pale dawn;—and as warm fires illume, 
  And cheerful tapers shine around the room, 
  Through misty windows bend my musing sight 
 Where, round the dusky lawn, the mansions white, 
  With shutters closed, peer faintly through the gloom, 
  That slow recedes; while yon grey spires assume, 
  Rising from their dark pile, an added height 
 By indistinctness given.—Then to decree 

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