xt7qjq0stw34_1952 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Robert Underwood Johnson signed poem, The Guest of the Evening text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Robert Underwood Johnson signed poem, The Guest of the Evening 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_19/Folder_9/Multipage6626.pdf undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_1952 xt7qjq0stw34 “TIIli GUEST 01“ THE EVENING."

@001) actions are a fruit >0 ripe and rare,
They hear not lingering. Let me then heware
To tnueh with \‘enturous hand this curving hraneh,
Nor lean too heedlessly against the tree
Thus, at its prime, O'erladen heavily
\Vlth golden harvest of a stock so staneh.
Lest I by same rude shock, at ”MS light hour,
Bringsy down the Virtues in a mellow shower.

To drop the figure, frietulm—let's he content

The guest shall fancy lL‘Ss than we have meant;

Speak not too closely of his speeial gnod,

That we are here tells more than trumpets enuld.

()ur friendxhip holds his virtues as the light

Holds the hid raiannv—sturm lull makes them bright;
The tnmle.~.t veil they wear I may not rai>e

Lest he xhould lilthll to hear and l to praise.

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