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Trinity Chapel, visible to your right, marks the probable site of Key's baptism. In 1779 it was the German Reformed Church
In 1840, Key, at age 61, came here to visit his aged cousin Eleanor Potts who was then totally blind. She lived on Council Street across the courtyard. Key promised her a poem, and she listened as he read the stanzas which included these lines:
The "light of other days" was hers,
Of happy days now past and gone,
It called up friends long lov'd and mourn'd,
And sweetly round her shone.
Twas the, as by her side I sat,
She softly touch'd the light guitar,
And tones that had my childhood charm'd,
Fell sweetly, sadly on my ear. |