Gaston de Blondeville, or The court of Henry III Keeping festival in Ardenne, a romance. St. Alban's Abbey, a metrical tale; With some poetical pieces. By Anne Radcliffe ... To which is prefixed: A memoir of the author, with extracts from her journals. In four volumes |
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There, ranged around in silent guard,Seventeen kings yet watch and ward
The good Duke Humphrey's mouldering form,
Here rescued from the earthly storm,
Raised by a rival—now a worm!
And, when the midnight chaunts were still,
Strange sounds the vault below would fill.
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Has stalked, that lonely tomb around,
And knelt upon the honoured ground,
With hands upon its white palle spread,
In seeming prayer and penance lost;
'Twas guessed this was a murderer's ghost,
Condemned to wander round the grave
Of him, whom kindness could not save.
There were, who in that shade could see
(Or 'twas the moonbeam's mockery)
Beaufort of cruel memory!
Such look as dying he had shown,
When hope of Heaven he did not own,
And Horror stared beside his bed;
Such grisly look this visage had.
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