The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-26

MY Iainer ana my brother nau nOt lVou.
And little further on we have her apostrophis-
ing
Q, my lord to be.
Ny love. for thy sake only.
am eleven years older than he Is.
But Will he care for rhat2
But love me only then the bastard sprout
MY sister, Is far faiGer tnan myself
VIII he be drawn 70 ner
No being OF me true laith with myself
Pager IS Tor hlIn-for 10 wed with spain
Would treble Administrations Is against him;
The council people. Parliament against him;
But will nave am MY hard father mated me;
MY brother rather hated me than loved;
NY sister covers anu hates me. Holy Virgin,
Plead with tiny blessed son; grant me my prayer;
Give me my Pnilip; and we two Will lead
The living waters OF the Faith again
Back lhro' their WldoW'd channel here and
watch
The parcn'd banks rolling incense, as Of old,
To heaven, anu kindled with the palms OF Christi
All this points TO the return OF England 10
Mother Church, the formal ratification OF whicn 1t
Is the business OF this pivotal scene TO represent
In an historic picture OF the assembled Parlla-
ment Other hands might have made the picture
effective, but Tennyson Is too mucn painter OF
still life to quicken the scene with action. ALI
there Is OF action in 1t Is
The legate here for pardon and ackno Wedge
The primary OF the Pope.
The Legate, Cardinal Pole, responds in a very
pretty speech entirely TennysonIan II kind, and
declares that England's sins are
matters OF che past
And range with etsam aud with onal thrown
Into the blind sea OF lorgetiulness.
This grand occasion, however, Is not the end or
the act, nor even OF the scene itself. the latter
closing with the arrest OF Sir Ralph Bagerhal,
OF the most snadowy characters IN the
drama, because he stood up when the
others knelt to receive apsolution. play
so weak In It's vital part must OF necessity be
weak in that which makes a drama most efec-
tilve-its situations. There are tableaux from
one end of the play to the other AT the close OF
the first act, where Mary obtains her darling wish
her Philip-rhe curtain falls oDthree persons, the
queen and the Spanish Ambassador being the
most important. And the fourth act which Is
the strongest, closes with . narrative OF Gran
mer's death at the stake.
THE SPEECHES AND EPISODES.
IL Is plain then, that the charm or this drama
lies In the speeches and episodes which are scat
tered through it ike MOWERS in q river meadow.
Some OF Queen Mary's speeches are wondrously
fine. We nave, for instance, this picture OF Mary
in a room in the palace. She Is with the Lady
Alice, and has In ner hand miniature OF
Philip
Most goodly, kinglike and an emperors son.
KING to be-is he not noble sIriS
ALICE
Gosdly enough, your Grace, ana yet, mcthinks.
have seen goodller.
Ay some waxen doh
Thy baby eyes have rested on, Delke;
All RED and white, the fashion OF our land
But my good mother came GOD rest ner soul
OF spain, and am spanish IN myself
And IN my hklngs.
BY your Grace's leave
Your royal mother came oil Spain, but took
TO the English red ana white Your royal father
for so they say was all pure lily ana rose
In his youth. and like lazy.
o, just God
sweet mother, you mad time and cause enough
To sicken OF mis- lilies and his roses.
Cast OH betrayed, detained, divorced, forlornl
Ana then the kng-that traitor past forgiveness,
the false archbishop Iawnlng on MN, married
The mother OF EiiZaoeth-a hereuc
Ey'n as she Is but God hath sent me here
To take such order with I'll hsretlcs
That II shall De, before die, as tho'
NY father aud my brother had not lived.
What vast tneu saying OF TINS Lady Jane,
Now IN the Tower
why, Madam, she was passing
Some chapel down In Essex, ana with ner
Lady Anne wharton, and the Lady Anne
Bowed to the Pyx; but Lady Jane stood up
stun as the very backbone or heresy.
Aud wherefore bow ye not says Lady Anne;
To him within there VINO mace Heaven aud Earth
can not ana dare not, tell your Grace
WHAT Lady Jane replica.
But win have it.
ALICE.
she said-pray pardon me and pity her
She hath neafken,d evil counsel-ah she said.
Ine baker made ain.
And this is her exultauon when she fancies she
is to give birth 10 a king for England and for
spain;-
He hath awakedl ne hath awakedt
lie stirs within the darkness
on, Philip, husband now ihY love 10 mlne
viii cnng more close, and those bleak manners
TAat make me snamed AID tongue-tisd in my love.
the sscoud Prince OF PEACE
the great unborn Defender OF the Faith,
VINO will ayenge me oil my enemies
He comes, anu my star rises.
The stormy wystts and NorthumbsrIands,
The proud Ambitions OF EllZaDetn,
And all her tiercest partisans-are pale
Before my star
the ghosts OF Luther ana Zuinglius fa1e
Into the oeatnless hell wncn Is their doom
Ills sceptre snall 20 forth rom Ind to Ind
his sword shat new tue hereto peoples downi
HIS faith snail cotne the world that Will be his,
Like universal air aud sunsnlne open,
Ye everlasting gates The Kiag Is here!-
My star, my SON.
After Pnllip haa gone ana came no more sne
thought for a moment he had come again, when
we have this speecn:-
Philip quick loop up my HART
Throw cushions on that seat, and make II throne
Arrange my dress-the gorgeous Indian shawl
Tnat Philip brought me IN our happy days.
That covers all SO-ain somewhat QIeenlike.
Bride Of tue mlgatlest sovereign upon eartA
This is ntly supplemented by the last scene OF
all-tne dying scene:-
MARY.
o God have been toc SLACK, too SLACK;
There are hot GOspellers even among our guards
NoDlcs We dared not tJuch. We have but burnt
The neretic priest workmen, aud women and
children.
Wet, fam ne, ague, lever, storm, wreck, wrath
We nave - play'd the coward; Gus ~ GJdis grace,
Wen follow Philips leading, and set up
The Holy once here-garner the wheat,
And Durn tue tares WITH unquencnaoe nrei
burn
Fe. what a savorl tell the cooks TO close
me doors Of al the onices below.
Lattmerl
Sir, we are private with our women here
Ever rough. blunt and uncourtly fellow
TnOu light O torch tnat never will 90 out
MS out-mine danes. women, the Holy Father
Has u en- the legatesnlp lrOm our cousin Pole
Was that well d0neY aud poor Pole pines OF IL,
As do, 10 tue death am out woman,
4 have no power. Az, weak and meek old man,
Seven old dlshOnOr'd even In the sight
Oh thine own sectares-NO, no. No plraOn -
Wny that WAS fase; there is the rIght hand sttli
BecKous me hence.
Sir, you were ourat for neresy: not Tor treason.