Dramatis Personae HUGO, a Norman Baron and a Scholar. ERIC, a friend of Hugo�s. THURSTON, | EUSTACE, | RALPH, | Followers of Hugo. HENRY, a…

    Our hopes are wild imaginings,    Our schemes are airy castles,    Yet these, on earth, are lords and kings,    And we their slaves and vassals;    Your dream, forsooth, of buoyant…

   The ocean heaves around us still    With long and measured swell,    The autumn gales our canvas fill,    Our ship rides smooth and well.    The broad Atlantic�s bed of foam    Still…

Laurence Raby�s Chamber. LAURENCE enters, a little the worse for liquor.     Laurence:    He never gave me a chance to speak,    And he call�d her, worse than a…

   �Where shall we go for our garlands glad    At the falling of the year,    When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad,    When the boughs are yellow and…

Translated from the Spanish Francesca.     Crush�d and throng�d are all the places    In our amphitheatre,    �Midst a sea of swarming faces    I can yet distinguish her;    Dost thou triumph,…

    Here�s a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord,    If his heart be true, I care not what his pocket may afford;    And may he…

    They say that poison-sprinkled flowers    Are sweeter in perfume    Than when, untouched by deadly dew,    They glowed in early bloom.     They say that men condemned to die    Have quaffed…

   They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less    Of sound than of words,    In lands where bright blossoms are scentless,    And songless bright birds;    Where, with fire and fierce…

Dawn     On skies still and starlit    White lustres take hold,    And grey flushes scarlet,    And red flashes gold.    And sun-glories cover    The rose shed above her,    Like lover and lover    They flame…