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COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE SUMMER OF 1833

X. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

POEMS


COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE SUMMER OF 1833


DEAR to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed, The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore; And to the throng, that on the Cumbrian shore Her landing hailed, how touchingly she bowed! And like a Star (that, from a heavy cloud Of pine-tree foliage poised in air, forth darts, When a soft summer gale at evening parts The gloom that did its loveliness enshroud) She smiled; but Time, the old Saturnian seer, Sighed on the wing as her foot pressed the strand, 10 With step prelusive to a long array Of woes and degradations hand in hand– Weeping captivity, and shuddering fear Stilled by the ensanguined block of Fotheringay!