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MISS A. MARY F. ROBINSON.

1857

[BORN at Leamington, Feb. 27, 1857; educated in Belgium, at Brussels, and in Italy, and completed with literary and classical studies at University College, London. Her first volume of poems, entitled A Handful of Honeysuckles, appeared in 1878: The Crowned Hippolytus, 1881; The New Arcadia, 1884. She is the author of several prose works, Janet Fisher, Arden, Lifi of Emily Bronte, and has also contributed some essays to German periodicals.]

LE ROI EST MORT.

AND shall I weep that Love's no more,
And magnify his reign?
Sure never mortal man before

Would have his grief again.
Farewell the long-continued ache,
The days a-dream, the nights awake,
I will rejoice and merry make,

And never more complain.

King Love is dead and gone for aye,
Who ruled with might and main,
For with a bitter word one day,
I found my tyrant slain,
And he in Heathenesse was bred,
Nor ever was baptized, 'tis said,
Nor is of any creed, and dead
Can never rise again.

LOVE'S EPIPHANY.

TREAD Softly here- for Love has passed this way!

Ay, even while I laughed to scorn His

name

And mocked aloud: There is no Love!

Love came.

The air was glorious with an added day, I saw the heavens opened far away, And forth with bright blown hair and eyes a-flame,

With lyre-shaped wings, filled with the wind's acclaim,

Flew Love and deigned a moment here

to stay.

I fell upon my face and cried in fear,

O Love! Love! Love! my King and
God!

But when I look'd He was no longer

near.

Since then, I watch beside this grass

He trod,

And pray all day, all night, for any pain Love can inflict, so He will come again.

PARADISE FANCIES.

LAST night I met mine own true love
Walking in Paradise,

A halo shone above his hair,
A glory in his eyes.

We sat and sang in alleys green
And heard the angels play,
Believe me, this was true last night,
Though it is false to-day.

Through Paradise garden
A minstrel strays,
An old golden viol
For ever he plays.

Birds fly to his head,

Beasts lie at his feet, For none of God's angels Make music so sweet.

And here, far from Zion
And lonely and mute,
I listen and long

For my heart is the lute.

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