[Robert Southey, Lake Poet; apparently unpublished and unrecorded] Autograph Manuscript Poem signed S. entitled On the Death of Riego [Captain-General Rafael del Riego y Fl?rez (1784 ? 1823) Spanish Army officer and politician]

Part of a cr. 8vo page, 18 x 14cm, aged but clear and complete, over-writing a letter on verso (part of) signed B Gooch [perhaps a relative of Southey's friend Robert Gooch]. SEE SCAN for full text. Title On the Death of Riego. Four stanzas, 4 lines each. First lines [He?] is gone the life of the good and brave | Has pass'd like a brief told story [.....Last lines] Yet died he not unfriended; | Then the patriot's spirit breath'd forth one prayer, | And [soar'd] above unbended..]