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THE

DEATH OF MARLOWE.

A Tragedy,

IN ONE ACT.

BY

R. H. HORNE,

AUTHOR OF

"Orion," the Tragedies of "Cosmo de' Medici," "

Gregory VII.,"
"Judas Iscariot, a Mystery Play," "Ballad Romances,"

&c., &c.

"He was a Man, fiery-real, from the great fire-bosom of Nature herself.'

THIS brief Tragedy, long since out of print, was originally published in London (by Messrs. Saunders and Otley), and was inscribed to the author's friend, LEIGH HUNT, happily living at that time; and it is now Dedicated to his dear Memory-deservedly dear to all who knew him, and to a world of others who know his books..

London, Christmas, 1869.

R. H. V.

THE DEATH OF MARLOWE.

WRITTEN AFTER READING "THE DEATH OF MARLOWE," BY R. H. HORNE, Esq.

A dream of Life and Death-a passionate dream!
Genius, self-borne in fierce and wild career,
Unconscious of the gulf that yawneth near,

Black, rayless, save with life's last flickering gleam,
Lost child of Pride and Power! may none redeem?
With fixed eye
and with outstretched hands,

Lo! on the lightning-rifted rock he stands
That sternly shadows Lethe's sluggard stream.

A moment! and strange sorrow fills the air—
Grief hath no sadder voice-a woman's wail!
And in that cry there is no vulgar tale;
'Tis not the outburst of a passing care:

He dies who lifted from her soul its veil,
And life to her henceforth is fathomless despair.

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J. W. DALBY.