Easy the answer were to know

And plain to understand,

That mind and memory both must fail,
And life itself must slacken sail,
And thought its functions must forego,
And fancy lose its latest glow,

Or e'er that land

Could pictured be less bright and fair
To her whose home and heart are there!
That land the loveliest that eye can see

The stranger ne'er forgets, then how should she?

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- Cease the soft sounds, the mellow voice is mute, And quivers to a close that plaintive lady's lute. Pass we to matters masculine; to strains

Where weightier themes may pay the reader's pains. Again disclose we counsels of the wise,

Deeds of the warlike : - let the Curtain rise.

CAMBRIDGE PRESS:

METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU.

A DRAMATIC ROMANCE,

IN TWO PARTS.

BY

HENRY TAYLOR, ESQ.

"Dramatica Poesis est veluti Historia spectabilis."

BACON DE AUGMENTIS.

VOL. II.

CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON:

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

MDCCC XXXV.

CAMBRIDGE PRESS:

METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU.

PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE.

PART II.