Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-11-05

chanting the following song:
'The White Rose has bloomed
Through brief summer day,
Yet the White Rose is doomed
To rapid decay.
Thy smile may impart
A. its sweetness awhile,
Yet the worms in thy heart
That shall Danish that smile.
Farewell-oh, farewellI
Mid the tempest that blows,
In my ear rings the knell
" Scotland's White Rose.
Swift to bear thee away.
Round thee hoarse pillows swell
Ance again, an for aye.
Rose o. Scotland, arewell"
As the last words of the song peaIed
on the ears of the terror smitten Catha-
rine, she assembled the side of the vessel,
and. with eyes fearless from agony, per-
ceived the shores of her native land re-
ceding fast from her view.
By an agreement between the English
and Flemish courts, all English rebels
had been excluded from the Low Coun-
tries.
Perkin, though born in England. was
Fleming by extraction, and might,
therefore, have claimed admission into
Flauders.
But, as he must have dismissed his
English retainers, the brave companions
of his dangers. and as he had to appre-
hend cold reception from people who
were determined to maintain an AMIGA
BILE footing with the English court, be
resolved not to hazard the experiment.
but repaired to Ireland, where he re-
mained for some time in insecure and
comfortless exile.
7. = 49, - ~ ovrnotoI 49, 49, :.
follow the historian IN detail of his
subsequent attempt upon England, of
his landing in Cornwall, being joined
by the pOpulace, and taking upon him
self for the first time the title of Richard
w., King of England.
1t was at this period that his too
faithful wife, following the fortunes of
her unhappy husband, fell into the
hands of the enemy.
This was a fatal blow to the adven-
turer.
In all his wanderings she had shared
his fortune.
With all his faults he had still ador-
ed his lovely, his ill-fated bride, his fair
and spotless white Rose"
We shall not depict the humiliating
scene of his surrender to King Henry,
of the exposure of his fictitious claims,
of his ignominious treatment and close
confinement, of his repeated efforts to
escape, and lastly, of his arraignment
and condemnation, but pass on to the
scene of execution.
The last morn that ever broke upor
the eyes of the unhappy pretender tc
royalty dawned heavily and slowly.
At an early hour the roads and lanes
adjacent to the hill of Tyburn, the place
of execution, were thronged with anxiou;
and expecting thousands
A detachment of soldiers surrounded
the sledge on which the culprit and hi
confessor we're placed.
As the procession approached the ia
tai spot, Perkin threw his eyes upon the
gallows that frowned on the hill. and
observed to mis- confessor, with smil
of bitter disappointment:
"Yonder is the throne to which ambi
tion has exalted me"
The father entreated him to dismis
from his thoughts everything that nigh
distract him from the awful duty Of pre-
pairing to meet his Maker, adding, tina
though disappointed of an earthly throne
the present place was to be stepping
stone to an eternal one.
"Were not these arms plnioned, erie
3 the prisoner, 81 would embrace the tree
and, since my tongue is not restrained
[ thank thee for the blest assurance
q He was now urged to a public confes
r sion of his imposture.
b sis not then your master yet content
said he. adding, "but 1 consent, an
e thus proclaim my infamy. Urged on m
. restless ambition, but more by the read
a tool of others designing, 1 have disturb
y ed the quiet of these realms, and sougf
8 a crown to which | had no claim. Fatf
er," he added, lowering his voic
q Heaven is my witness that had | NJ
been bound by oath, had long disco'
2 tinued this iniquitous and futile ente
Is prise. My unhappy Catharine no
f" does my heart bleed at thought of he
n She long, long entreated me to resig
lr the ambitious claim. That angel woma
e father, in the flower of youth. in bea'