The shore-boat lies in the morning light,    By the good ship ready for sailing;    The skies are clear, and the dawn is bright,    Tho� the bar of the…

�Gillian�s dead, God rest her bier,    How I loved her many years syne;    Marion�s married, but I sit here,    Alive and merry at three-score year,    Dipping my nose in…

�Beneath the greenwood bough.�    – W. Scott.     Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows,    Though laden with faint perfume,    �Tis the fragrance rare that the bushman knows,    The…

�They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds,They have bridled a hundred black.� Old Ballad.�He turned in his saddle, now follow who dare.I ride for my…

A Preface and a Piracy Prologue     Of borrow�d plumes I take the sin,    My extracts will apply    To some few silly songs which in    These pages scatter�d lie….

    Thou art moulded in marble impassive,    False goddess, fair statue of strife,    Yet standest on pedestal massive,    A symbol and token of life.    Thou art still, not with stillness…

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…