![[Header#^header-embed]] > [!SUMMARY] > [[Hester Thrale née Salusbury|Hester Piozzi]] and [[Gabriel Piozzi]] celebrated their nineteenth anniversary on 25 July 1803. ![[gabriel_piozzi_by_george_dance_1793.jpg]] <div class="caption">Gabriel Piozzi 1793 by George Dance.</div> > [!QUOTE] To Mr Piozzi 25: July 1803—[[Brynbella]] > Accept my Love this honest Lay > Upon your TwentiethWedding Day: > I little hop'd our Lives would stay > To hail the Twentieth Wedding Day. > If you're grown Gouty[^1] — I grown Gray > Upon our Twentieth Wedding day— > Tis no great Wonder;—Friends must say > ““Why tis their Twentieth Wedding Day.”” > Perhaps there's few feel less Decay > Upon a Twentieth Wedding day: > And many of those who used to pay > Their Court upon our Wedding Day, > Have melted off, and died away > Before our Twentieth Wedding Day. > Those Places too, which once so gay, > Bore Witness to our Wedding Day; > Florence and Milan blythe as May > Marauding French[^2] have made their Prey. > The World itself’s in no good Way, > On this our Twentieth Wedding Day. > If then—of Gratitude one Ray > Illuminates our Wedding Day, > Think midst the Wars and wild Affray > That rage around this Wedding day, > What Mercy 'tis—we are spar'd to say > We have seen our Twentieth Wedding-day.” ## See also ![[hester-lynch-thrale-1741-1821🔎#^hester-lynch-thrale-infoblock]] #history/person/SALUSBURY/hester-lynch-born-1741 #history/person/PIOZZI/gabriel-mario-born-before-1740 #history/place/england/surrey/streatham/streatham-park ![[Footer#^footer-embed]] [^1]: [[Gabriel Piozzi]] suffered from gout. [^2]: The [French Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution) was happening when this was written.