New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08


"As you WILL my love, my sweet;
Where you are. there would come"
When his stepdame saw the bride,
WeIi-niQh choked with spleen was she;
"Tbis paie-face girl, this lump OF pride
And shall she be preferred TO mel
"New things please men best, tits true.
And the old are cast aside.
Natheless, what is old and tried
Serves far better than the new."
Scarce eight months had passed away
When she TO the Prince would come
And with subtleIy would say,
Would you lose both wife and homeI
"Have care, lest what tell
Should befal you so 'twere best
Have q care, and guard You we'll
Ware the cuckoo In your nest"
MADAM, IL tie truth yon tell.
Meet reward her crime shall earn; =,
First the round towers sttaltest COLI,
Then III nine days she shall burn"
When the old King was aware,
Bitter tears the dotard shed,
Tore in grlef his white, white hair.
Crying, I" Would God that were dead"
And to all the seamen said,
GOOD seamen, pray YOU tell me true,
Is there any one OF you -,
Can tell me II my Guild be deadf
"My liege. az yet alive is she.
Thouph burned tomorrow shall she DO;
But from her prison tower, y King
Morning and eve we hear her sing.
"Mornne and eve from her fair throat
Issues the same sweet, plsntive note,
THEY are deceived; | kiss the rod.
Have pity on them, D my God!
Even as lamb. who gives bis life
All meeky the cruel KNIFE,
Wbit.-robed she went, her soft feet bare,
Self-shrouded IN her golden hair.
And as she to her dreadful fate
Fared on, poor innocent. meek d and milo, ..,
"To slay the mother and the child"
All went sore both small and great,
Only the stepdame smiling safe:
"Sure. 'twere no evil deed. but good
To kill the viper with her brood.
"Ouick, good fremen. fan the fire,
Till 1t leap forth fierce and red;
Fan il fierce as my desire;
She shall burn till she IL dead.
Vain their efforts. all in vain,
Though they famed and famed again;
The more they blew, the enbers gray
Faded and sank and died away.
When the Judge the portent saw
Dazed and sick with fear was he
"Sbe is O witch. she 1outs the law;
Come let US drown her IN the sea-"
V.
What saw you on the sea 7 A boat
Neither by sail nor oarsman sped.
And at the helm, 10 watch II float,
An angel white, with wings outspread.
little boat far out to sea,
And with her child fair ladye,
Whom at her breast she sheltered well,
Like white dove upon she'll
She kissed and clasped and kissed again
His little back, his little feet,
Grooming soft and tender strain,
Dada, my dear. Dada my sweet.
.'Ah. could your father see you. sweet,
A proud man would he be today
But we on earth may never meet
But be is lost and far away
In Armor tower Is such alright
AS never castle knew before.
For at the mdmOst hour of night
The wicked sIer dame is no more.
" I see hell open at my side,
Oh, save me, IN Gods name my son 5.
Your spouse was chaste twas who lied:
Oh, save me, for am undone."
Scarce had she checked her lying tongue
When from her lips snake did glide
With threatening jaws, which Kissed and stunl
And pierced her marrow till she died.
Eftsoons, to foreign re aims the knight
Went forth, by land aud over sea;
Seeking in vain his lost delight
Ger all the round, round world went he.
He sought her East, he sought her West,
" Next to the hot South sped he forth,
Then, after many trutless quest,
He sought her IN the gusty North.
There by some nameless island vast
His anchor DER the side he cast;
When by brooklets fairy spray
He spies little lad at play.
Fair are his locks, and blue his ewes.
As his lost loves or as the sea;
The good knight. looking on them, signs,
Fair child, who may thy father bep
:" SIR, have none save Him in Heaven:
Long years ago he went away,
Ere was born, aud | am seven;
My mother mourns him night and day.
"Who is thy mother, child, and whereof
=" She cleanses linen white and fair
Together will thy mother see"
He took the youngling by the hand,
And as they paced the yellow strand
The child's SWIFT blood in pulse and arm
Leapt to his fathers and grew warm.
"Rise up and look, oh, mother dear;
II Is my father who ts here:
Ny father who was lost Is come
OF, bless God for IL Ito his homeP
They knelt and pleased His holy name,
Who 10 90 good and Just and mild,
Who joins the sire and wife and childs
And 90 TO Brittany they came.
And may the blessed Trinity
LEWIS Nosau.