StoryTitle("caps", "The Lord of Burleigh") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In her ear he whispers gaily,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"If my heart by signs can tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Maiden, I have watched thee daily,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I think thou lov'st me well.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She replies, in accents fainter,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"There is none I love like thee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is but a landscape-painter,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a village maiden she.", "") ?>
PagePoem(76, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He to lips, that fondly falter,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Presses his without reproof;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leads her to the village altar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And they leave her father's roof.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"I can make no marriage present;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Little can I give my wife.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love will make our cottage pleasant,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I love thee more than life.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They by parks and lodges going", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "See the lordly castles stand;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Summer woods, about them blowing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Made a murmur in the land.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From deep thought himself he rouses,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Says to her that loves him well,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Let us see these handsome houses", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the wealthy nobles dwell.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So she goes by him attended,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hears him lovingly converse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sees whatever fair and splendid", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lay betwixt his home and hers.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Parks with oak and chestnut shady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Parks and order'd gardens great,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ancient homes of lord and lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Built for pleasure and for state.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All he shows her makes him dearer;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Evermore she seems to gaze", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On that cottage growing nearer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where they twain will spend their days.", "") ?>
PagePoem(77, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O but she will love him truly!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He shall have a cheerful home;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She will order all things duly", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When beneath his roof they come.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus her heart rejoices greatly", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till a gateway she discerns", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With armorial bearings stately,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And beneath the gate she turns;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sees a mansion more majestic", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than all those she saw before;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Many a gallant gay domestic", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bows before him at the door.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they speak in gentle murmur", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When they answer to his call,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While he treads with footstep firmer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Leading on from hall to hall.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And while now she wanders blindly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor the meaning can divine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Proudly turns he round and kindly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"All of this is mine and thine.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here he lives in state and bounty,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lord of Burleigh, fair and free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a lord in all the county", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is so great a lord as he.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All at once the colour flushes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her sweet face from brow to chin;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As it were with same she blushes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And her spirit changed within.", "") ?>
PagePoem(78, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then her countenance all over", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pale again as death did prove:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But he clasp'd her like a lover,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he cheer'd her soul with love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So she strove against her weakness,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tho' at times her spirits sank;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shaped her heart with woman's meekness", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To all duties of her rank;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a gentle consort made he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And her gentle mind was such", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That she grew a noble lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the people loved her much.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But a trouble weigh'd upon her", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And perplex'd her, night and morn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the burden of an honour", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unto which she was not born.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Faint she grew and ever fainter.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As she murmur'd, \"Oh, that he", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Were once more that landscape-painter", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which did win my heart from me!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So she droop'd and droop'd before him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fading slowly from his side;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Three fair children first she bore him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then before her time she died.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Weeping, weeping late and early,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Walking up and pacing down,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Deeply mourn'd the Lord of Burleigh,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Burleigh-house by Stamford-town.", "") ?>
PagePoem(79, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And he came to look upon her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he look'd at her and said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"Bring the dress and put it on her", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That she wore when she was wed.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then her people, softly treading,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bore to earth her body, drest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the dress that she was wed in,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That her spirit might have rest.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Alfred Tennyson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>