The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-01-04
Lady Wentworth
IONGFELLOW.

One hundred years ago, and something more,
In Queen street, Portsmouth, at her tavern
door,
Neat a. pin and blooming as a rose
stood Mistress Stayers in her furbelows,
Just as her cuckoo clock was striking nine,
tbove her head, Respondent on the sign,
The portrait Of the Earl of Halifax,
The scarlet coat and perwig of flax.
surveyed at leisure all her varied charms,
Her cap, her bodice, her white folded arms.
And half resolved, though he was past his
prime,
And rather damaged by the lapse of time,
~ fall down at her feet, and to declare
The passion that had driven him to despair
For from his lofty station he had seen
Savers, her husband, dressed in bottle-green,
Drive his now flying stage-coach, fourth hand,
I'oWn the long lane and out into the land,
And knew that he was far upon the way
10 Ipswich and to Boston on the Bay!
Just then the meditations of the Earl
Were interrupted by little girl,
Baretooted, ragged, with neglected hair
EYES fnIi of laughter neck and shoulders bare
\ thin slip of girl, like new moon.
sure to be rounded into beauty soon:
\ creature men would worship and adore.
though now in mean habiments she bore
\ pau OF water, dripping, through the street.
Ana bathing, as she Went her naked feet.
It was pretty picture, full of grace
The slender form, the delicate thin face,
N. "
The shining feet the lanohtnr IN haI A.
That DER her facp in rinnles gleamaa ami
glanced,
III H. -, ~ p1t SlllllhS >unpt ms uanced'
y no w, Mn uncommon &c leeings OF delight
NJ NC i1' - " iialnaN oeileid me slght
MOI so Dame Stayers, for he heard her say
These words. or thought he did as plain as iav
20, Martha Hilton! File, how dare YOU 60
About the town half dressed, and looking so -
~ "niGn tne 29pSeE laaghed ana stsalght re-
imles
II, nv No., y, H. tVGM w 9aali rue t.,,
~ ~ y" y ivy ~ iti' am. ana On M hiti
,itr ~ ~ $3.50 ms ny NHlieu'
~ VII ne iltt puIueh SIC passed on
''oNtu p'tA' lNtH lufled me corner ana Wa
gone
What next upou tbat memorable How
XII b III a~gu s @'en5iG ,n |4s gay
~ lu r. litHl FquilaSe' tllal flashed amt spun,
if ftlFgf '5ar r 2iilIering n the sun
5'1r'i;, = " ~ j'thets IItLt ana lahh'
iIV o','tF9 u 'lltS IoHe and SANK,
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to1 .ar"H 5g .e. 'o OIL nead nigh y r
And diamond buckles sparkling at his knees
onward the pageant swept. and as it passed
1r Mistress StaYers courtesied low and fast .
Ear ibis was Governor Wentworth DRIVING
down
10 Little llarbor, just beyond the town.
W here his Great House stood looking out to sea.
\ 2oodiy place, where II was good to he.
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~ tH H. i Ia. r ,loh ,'il aoote
o.4oro A. Ioae lLoiil lle Efeal hgA foa0
haronial and colonial in IFS style;
CABLES and Concentrations everywhere,
AAd stacks Of chmnies rising high in air
al4eah pipes, on winch all winds that blew
Made mournfIl music the whole winterthrough
W Ithln, unWnnted spendorS met the eve
Ianhtis ana floors OF OAK, and tapestry,
carved chimney pieces, where on brazen dogs
trFeLted ana roared the Christmas fire of logs !;
i'oois opening into darkness unawareS,
mysterious passages, and flights OF stairs
And on the walls, in heavy glded frames,
ihe ancestral WentWorthS with Old-seripture
names.
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u'h Wa lAe mansion Where the great man
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III. ,r uh,yIStil1! 4IolnA
For though not given 10 weakness, he -oull
r, ietI
he pam Of wounds that ache because they heal.
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m, u.
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49, ~ ''
BY day, by night, the silver crescent grew,