Dishonoured thus in his old age; To the wrong'd daughter of his friend Led forth the lady Geraldine! THE CONCLUSION TO PART II. A LITTLE child, a limber elf, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, Must needs express his love's excess To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. At each wild word to feel within (O sorrow and shame should this be true!) Such giddiness of heart and brain Comes seldom save from rage and pain, So talks as it's most used to do. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Ερως ἄει λάληδρος ἕταιρος. In many ways doth the full heart reveal The absence of the love, which yet it fain would show. ALICE DU CLOS: OR THE FORKED TONGUE. A BALLAD. "One word with two meanings is the traitor's shield and shaft and a slit tongue be his blazon!" Caucasian Proverb. "THE Sun is not yet risen, But the dawn lies red on the dew: Lord Julian has stolen from the hunters away, Is seeking, Lady, for you. Put on your dress of green, Your buskins and your quiver; Lord Julian is a hasty man, Long waiting brook'd he never. I dare not doubt him, that he means And you his lady gay. O Lady! throw your book aside! I would not that my Lord should chide." Thus spake Sir Hugh the vassal knight As that moon-shiny doe, |