True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-06-24
q, RAGAN, Editor and Proprietor

"All men who live in Kingdom, i'm.
agine and expect royal revefses and
flights; but other lovers than One's-seIf
enter no mans thoughts, when dwelling
on The future"
''And why should we not walk over
Why fly Prudent one will any fine
court lady come running after to seize my
lovers mantle, or is there any David 10
snatch thy lamb, Uriah ? Moreover the
moon is rising, and the palace lies beyond
the bridge, and thy sinner and thy red
fnued perch are dead. See those long.
Inecked, white sAEapS swim up that sea Of
silver beneath the pollard willows, TO
their nest Come, my love +! leave thy
rod and booty, |. will wait for thee no
longer y and mounting the rough, stone
steps she sprang lightly on the parapet,
! and skilfully balancing herself, easily trip
ped along the narrow, dangerous beams.
Another instant, and her lovers arm en-
circling her waist, lifted her down to the
foot.path.
"Play me no more such pranks % said
he. "Where is the naughty dignity that
erewhiIe made my heart to tremble z"
"That was because thou vert foolish.
Three hours have beenno princess, but
a happy girl, nor will call tony lost
dignity till, when | am again weighed
down with splendor, it recognizes me-"
a"WaIk beside me while thou mayest,
darling" he said, dreamily. sr.
ais Thy crimson order across thy shoul-
der, and thy rapier dangling at lhy other
side Methnks | hear thy spurs clat-
tering on the hard stone. One would
know thou vert no fisherman. Thou
walkest as though~a crown lay on thy
head"
"Heavier than a crown .lieth on my
heart" ~.
"Hush !" she answered, coming back
TO him. 81 will never play thee false,
thou knowest; leave thy sadness. Harkl
the good market folks are coming. My
good fisherman, be merry, as all poor peo-
pie mist needs, be Wear this in your
cap !" and she plucked a stem of purple
bells growing in crevice of the wall and
handed it to bim ; and while the country
people passed across the city to their
homes, the two lovers went the other
way, and became lost TO notice in the
crowd and the shadows.
"Robert Blake |" cried one marke!man
at the other extremity Of the bridge, to Q
companion. "No more war for us, and
corn again comes into our barns"
"And how may that be, Lee" return
ed his mate, :.iwhen our king makes war
next month, on the French one, the curt
"Thus! stupid cold beaver! The Prin.
cess Mary, blessings on her sunny head,
ere that will be Queen of France, and
will marry the cur who for a wife sells a
kingdom ~ m
Suffolk, the betrolhed of the princess,
also knew it,.
II was late the same evening, and long
sitting in the rich dusk and semi;moon-
light of the boudoir of Queen Katherine
OF Arrogon, not as yet divorced, the lovers
had tasted pleasure loo deep aud pure
not 10 be the precursor of evil.
The page had Just lighted the wax ia
pers, and IN the sudden brilliancey, Suf-
folk and Mary sat quietly, half obscured
by the heavy drspery of the deep window.
The queen sat pale and sad at distance
for she had lately buried her darling and
younges: child), and had no part in the
conversation A light step on the stair
and ringing laugh, and as the door
opened the lovely Ame Bolyn with a
sweeping courtesy presented herself be-
fore her mistress. Arranging the queens
lootstool she placed in her hand pretty
bunch offragrant garden roses, and, trip
ped to The window where the. lovers sat.
Mischievously raising The curtains, "what
have we here - she cried. "A pair Of
doves, as l llve,. billing and cooing.-
Hide thy head under thy wing, my dear,
and let thy pretty. mate sing, my dear J.
Why dolh thy highness NOPE there p
All, a lovers quarrel Send melancholy
away Step out and have a pas de trois?'
"Why speak French g." asked Mary,
half angry at the interruption.
"Itis a langua pc we shall all speak
more of anon,''Y answered the gay mind
ofhonor. l2@3S ~ lei
7" Would | could hear some one mur-
mer my beautiful Spanish soft sounded
Arragonese,o sighed the queen, laying
her forehead on her hand. The Lady
Ann turned roguishly,s and smillngly
breathed sentence OF purest Spanish,
half Kissing heconclusion between hel
teeth, while with darling glances from The
narrowed apertures ofeyes partly closed
tshe steadily surveyed the queen who star
ted at the purport of her words. Aheayy
step without sounded al the moment, and
the king entered unattended the King
Henry The Eighth, who, then in the prim,
Of manhood, was at this date BY no means
Of the unpreposessing appearances Iha
i characterized him later in life Al
Lady Annerstood poised on tiPtoe, viii
,Islightly extended hands, looking at th'
queen whose bewildeted eyes were raise'
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