IV. Sometimes on lonely mountain-meres I leap on board: no helmsman steers A gentle sound, an awful light! Three angels bear the holy Grail : As down dark tides the glory slides, V. When on my goodly charger borne The cock crows ere the Christmas morn, The tempest crackles on the leads, And, ringing, spins from brand and mail But o'er the dark a glory spreads, And gilds the driving hail. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. VI. A maiden knight to me is given Such hope, I know not fear; I yearn to breathe the airs of heaven I muse on joy that will not cease, Pure spaces clothed in living beams, Pure lilies of eternal peace, Whose odors haunt my dreams; And, stricken by an angel's hand, This mortal armor that I wear, This weight and size, this heart and eyes, Are touched, are turned to finest air. VII. The clouds are broken in the sky, And through the mountain-walls A rolling organ-harmony Swells up, and shakes and falls. Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear: "O just and faithful knight of God! Ride on the prize is near." So pass I hostel, hall, and grange; By bridge and ford, by park and pale, All-armed I ride, whate'er betide, Until I find the holy Grail. EDWARD GRAY. SWEET Emma Moreland of yonder town "And have you lost your heart?" she said; Sweet Emma Moreland spoke to me: "Sweet Emma Moreland, love no more “Ellen Adair she loved me well, Against her father's and mother's will: To-day I sat for an hour and wept, By Ellen's grave, on the windy hill. "Shy she was, and I thought her cold; Thought her proud, and fled over the sea; Filled I was with folly and spite, When Ellen Adair was dying for me. "Cruel. cruel were the words I said! Cruelly came they back to-day: You're too slight and fickle,' I said, 'To trouble the heart of Edward Gray.' "There I put my face in the grass Whispered, 'Listen to my despair: I repent me of all I did: Speak a little, Ellen Adair!' "Then I took a pencil, and wrote On a mossy stone, as I lay, 'Here lies the body of Ellen Adair ; And here the heart of Edward Gray! "Love may come, and love may go, And fly, like a bird, from tree to tree: But I will love no more, no more, Till Ellen Adair come back to me. Bitterly wept I over the stone: There lies the body of Ellen Adair! And there the heart of Edward Gray! WILL WATERPROOF'S LYRICAL MONOLOGUE. MADE AT THE COCK. O PLUMP head-waiter at The Cock, VOL. II. To which I most resort, How goes the time? "T is five o'clock. Go fetch a pint of port: But let it not be such as that You set before chance-comers, But such whose father-grape grew fat On Lusitanian summers. No vain libation to the Muse, And whisper lovely words, and use To make me write my random rhymes, Ere they be half-forgotten; Nor add and alter, many times, Till all be ripe and rotten. 8 |