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> [!SUMMARY]
>[[Hester Thrale née Salusbury|Hester Thrale]] wrote of her daughter [[Sophia Thrale]]'s verses …
> [!QUOTE] Hester Thrale. [[Thraliana]] 6 August 1780.
> The other two Girls leave me tomorrow they will do very well; Sophy has a Turn for making Verses, bad enough to be sure, yet such a Turn shews Genius in a Girl who was nine Years old only a fortnight ago. The following is one of her Attempts forsooth upon a wild [Convolvulus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolvulaceae) which She picked up here between [[Brighthelmstone]] & Rottenden[^1].
## Convolvulus
> Fairest Product of the Field,
> Scent and Fragrance thou dost yield,
> Oh lovely, beauteous Flow’r!
> Thy Charms indeed are more than I can tell,
> They please the Sight, the Sense, the Smell,
> And shew thy wondrous Pow’r.—
> [!INFO] Other verses by [[Sophia Thrale]] …
>**Streatham** which is reproduced on page 84 of Merritt's book _Piozzi Marginalia_
>
>and from her mother's late scrapbook:
>- **Minced Meat for Pyes**; and
>- **[[Harriot]]**.
## See also
#history/person/THRALE/sophia-born-1771
#history/person/SALUSBURY/hester-lynch-born-1741
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[^1]: [Rottingdean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rottingdean).