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MORE yet and more, and yet we mark not all: The Warning fain to bid fair women heed Its hard brief note of deadly doom and deed;1 The verse that strewed too thick with flowers the hall Whence Nero watched his fiery festival;2 That iron page wherein men’s eyes who read See, bruised and marred between two babes that bleed, A mad red-handed husband’s martyr fall;3 The scene which crossed and streaked with mirth the strife Of Henry with his sons and witchlike wife;4 And that sweet pageant of the kindly fiend, Who, seeing three friends in spirit and heart made one, Crowned with good hap the true-love wiles he screened In the pleached lanes of pleasant Edmonton.5 |
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1. A Warning for Fair Women. [back]
2. The Tragedy of Nero. [back] 3. A Y60orkshire Tragedy. [back] 5. The Merry Devil of Edmonton. [back]
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