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they!

Playing on me-not dead now-a swoon

-a scene

Yet how she made her wail as for the dead!

Enter MILLY.

Milly. Please, Mister 'Arold.
Harold (roughly).

Well?

Milly. The owd man's coom'd ageän to 'issen, an' wants

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[While they are shouting and struggling Dora rises and comes between them.

Dora (to Dobson). Peace, let him be: it is the chamber of Death! Sir, you are tenfold more a gentleman, A hundred times more worth a woman's love,

Than this, this-but I waste no words upon him:

His wickedness is like my wretchedness

To hev a word wi' ye about the marriage. Beyond all language.
Harold. The what?

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(To Harold.)

You-you see her there! Only fifteen when first you came on her, And then the sweetest flower of all the

wolds,

So lovely in the promise of her May,
So winsome in her grace and gaiety,
So loved by all the village people here,
So happy in herself and in her home--
Dobson (agitated). Theer, theer! ha
done. I can't abear to see her.
[Exit.

Dora. A child, and all as trustful as
a child!

Five years of shame and suffering broke the heart

That only beat for you; and he, the father,

Thro' that dishonour which you brought upon us,

Has lost his health, his eyesight, even his mind.

Harold (covering his face). Enough! Dora. It seem'd so; only there was left

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INDEX TO THE FIRST LINES.

A CITY clerk, but gently born and bred, 156.
Ah God! the petty fools of rhyme, 237.

Airy, fairy Lilian, 6.

All along the valley, stream that flashest white,

235.

Altho' I be the basest of mankind, 85.

And Willy, my eldest-born, is gone, you say,
little Anne? 225.

A plague upon the people fell, 238.

Are you sleeping? have you forgotten? do not
sleep, my sister dear! 552.

A spirit haunts the year's last hours, 13.
A still small voice spake unto me, 30.

A storm was coming, but the winds were still, 380.
As when with downcast eyes we
muse and
brood, 24.

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville
lay, 507.

At Francis Allen's on the Christmas Eve, 67.
Athelstan King, 534-

A thousand summers ere the time of Christ, 547.

BANNER of England, not for a season, O banner
of Britain, hast thou, 519.

Below the thunders of the upper deep, 6.
Be thou a-gawin' to the long barn, 778.
Break, break, break, 124.

Brooks, for they call'd you so that knew you
best, 533.

Bury the Great Duke, 218.

CARESS'D or chidden by the slender hand, 26.
Chains, my good lord: in your raised brows I
read, 525.

Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn, 8.
Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing, 3.
Come not, when I am dead, 119.

Come, when no graver cares employ, 234.
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet
'tis early morn, 98.

'Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the
land, 54.

DAGONET, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood,
443.

Dainty little maiden, whither would you wander?
237.
Dead! 571.

Dead Princess, living Power, if that, which lived,
518.

Dear, near and true-no truer Time himself, 240.
Deep on the convent-roof the snows, 109.

Dosn't thou 'car my 'erse's legs, as they canters
awady? 231.

Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our
pride, 142.

ELAINE the fair, Elaine the loveable, 395.
Eyes not down-dropt nor over-bright, but fed, 6.

FAIR is her cottage in its place, 236.

First pledge our Queen this solemn night, 575.
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, 119.
Flower in the crannied wall, 240.

From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done, 419.
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, 62.

GLORY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song,

239.
Golden-hair'd Ally whose name is one with mine,
499.

HALF a league, half a league, 222.
Hallowed be Thy name-Halleluiah! 533.
He clasps the crag with crooked hands, 119.
Helen's Tower, here I stand, 574-

Her arms across her breast she laid, 119.
Her, that yer Honour was spakin' to? Whin,
yer Honour? last year, 555.

Here, by this brook, we parted; I to the East,
139.

Here far away, seen from the topmost cliff, 476.
Here, it is here, the close of the year, 237.
He rose at dawn and, fired with hope, 236.
He that only rules by terror, 115.

He thought to quell the stubborn hearts of oak, 25.
Hide me, Mother! my Fathers belong'd to the
church of old, 541.

How long, O God, shall men be ridden down, 26.

I BUILT my soul a lordly pleasure-house, 44.
If I were loved, as I desire to be, 27.

I had a vision when the night was late, 120.
I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood,
286.

I knew an old wife lean and poor, 66.

Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls, 124.

I'm glad I walk'd. How fresh the meadows
look, 81.

In her ear he whispers gaily, 116.

I read, before my eyelids dropt their shade, 56.
I see the wealthy miller yet, 36.

I send you here a sort of allegory, 44.

Is it you, that preach'd in the chapel there looking
over the sand? 544.

It little profits that an idle king, 95.

It was the time when lilies blow, 114.

I waited for the train at Coventry, 103.

I was the chief of the race-he had stricken my
father dead, 529.

I wish I were as in the years of old, 538.

KING ARTHUR made new knights to fill the gap,

433-

King, that hast reign'd six hundred years, and
grown, 537.

LADY Clara Vere de Vere, 49.

Late, my grandson! half the morning have I
paced these sandy tracts, 560.
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, 309.
Life and thought have gone away, 15.
Like souls that balance joy and pain, 118.
Lo! there once more-this is the seventh night,
653.

Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm, 125.
Love thou thy land, with love far-brought, 64.
Low-flowing breezes are roaming the broad
valley dimm'd in the gloaming, 3.
Lucilia, wedded to Lucretius, found, 161.

MIDNIGHT-in no midsummer tune, 573.
Milk for my sweet-arts, Bess! fur it mun be the
time about now, 557.

Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free, 25.
Minnie and Winnie, 237.

Move eastward, happy earth, and leave, 119.
My father left a park to me, 108.

My friend should meet me somewhere hereabout,

521.

My good blade carves the casques of men, 110.
My heart is wasted with my woe, 17.

My hope and heart is with thee-thou wilt be, 25.
My life is full of weary days, 24.

My Lords, we heard you speak: you told us all,

221.

My Rosalind, my Rosalind, 22.
Mystery of mysteries, 20.

NATURE, So far as in her lies, 63.
Nightingales warbled without, 235.

Not here! the white North has thy bones; and

thou, 537.

Not this way will you set your name, 569.
Now is done thy long day's work, 16.

O BLACKBIRD! sing me something well, 61.
O bridesmaid, ere the happy knot was tied, 27.
Of love that never found his earthly close, 92.
Of old sat Freedom on the heights, 64.
O God! my God! have mercy now, 3.
O Lady Flora, let me speak, 104.

Old Fitz, who from your suburb grange, 537.
Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies, 578.
O Love, Love, Love! O withering might! 39-
O love, what hours were thine and mine, 233-
O loyal to the royal in thyself, 474.

O me, my pleasant rambles by the lake, 83.
O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies, 243-
Once in a golden hour, 235.

Once more the gate behind me falls, 88.
Once more the Heavenly Power, 573-
On either side the river lie, 27.

O Patriot Statesman, be thou wise to know,

575.

O plump head-waiter at The Cock, 111.
O purblind race of miserable men, 354-
O sweet pale Margaret, 21.

O thou so fair in summers gone, 575.
O thou, that sendest out the man, 66.
Our birches yellowing and from each, 568.
Our doctor had call'd in another, I never had
seen him before, 517.

'Ouse-keeper sent tha my lass, fur New Squire
coom'd last night, 514.

Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep, 532.
O well for him whose will is strong! 235-
O you chorus of indolent reviewers, 243-
O you that were eyes and light to the King till
he passed away, 537.

PELLAM the King, who held and lost with Lot,
369.

Pine, beech and plane, oak, walnut, apricot, 750

QUEEN GUINEVERE had fled the court, and sat,
456.

REVERED, beloved-O you that hold, 1.
Roman Virgil, thou that singest, 570.
Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione
row! 574.

SEA-KINGS' daughter from over the sea, 223-
Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day, 165.
Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw, 15.
So all day long the noise of battle roll'd, 68.
So Hector spake; the Trojans roar'd applause,

243.

So saying, light-foot Iris pass'd away, 536.

So, my lord, the Lady Giovanna, who hath been

away, 767.

So then our good Archbishop Theobald, 693-
Stand back, keep a clear lane! 579-

Still on the tower stood the vane, 120.

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