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Friend of my youth ! for thee my tears 
Spontaneously shall flow 
And memory through a length of years 
Shall nurse the sighs of woe. 
For thee when autumn flows around 
An offering sad I’ll pay 
Deck with fresh wreaths thy hallow’d ground 
And mourn the fatal day. 
On thee amid life’s varied part 
My tenderest thoughts shall rest 
Bemoan’d while love can warm my heart 
Or friendship cheer my breast. 
Ostas THurRSTON, called in the “ Dictionary of Nationai 
Biography” the eldest son, matriculated at Christ Church college 
Oxford 19th March, 1785, became B.A. in 1789, took orders and 
was beneficed in Norfolk.* In 1816 he resigned his preferments and 
became Organist Fellow, then so called, of Dulwich College, where 
he died in 1831, aged 65 it is there said, but he was born in 1765. 
He was the second son who had the name of Thurston, and this 
with his unusual first name attracts attention. Among the out rate- 
payers of Bath for 1779 appears in Lansdown Road, Horasha 
Thurston, and so again in 1780. In 1785 heis gone, but in the Bath 
Journaél 5th July, 1790, is an advertisement that Mr. H. Thurston, 
of 3, Burton Street, will sell by auction, &c. The use of two 
such unusual forenames seems to suggest there must have been 
a family connection, and possibly through the mother. By his 
will proved 29 March, 1831,t he left all his estate real and 
personal to his brother William absolutely. There is a portrait 
of him at Dulwich College, and a crayon by Sir Thos. Lawrence 
in the Dulwich Gallery. 
* Foster, ‘* Alumni Oxonienses.” + Tebbs, 162. 
