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Poems: By Menella Bute Smedley

Smedley, Menella Bute (1819 or 20-1877)

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THE LITTLE FAIR SOUL.

WAITING FOR THE TIDE.

“WIND ME A SUMMER CROWN,” SHE SAID.

“ONCE UPON A TIME.”

A GIRL'S LOVE-SONG.

WHEN THE NEWS ABOUT THE ‘TRENT’ CAME.

“WINDY AND GREY THE MORNING.”

OUR WELCOME TO GARIBALDI.

IN THE MEANTIME.

A PLEA FOR BEAUTY.

WHAT WE MAY SEE.

ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE ALBERT.

WHAT HEAREST THOU?

EREMOS AND EUDÆMON.

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SCENE II.—Lady Grace's Library.

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TWO EARLY POEMS.

THE MOTHER'S LESSON.

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ODIN'S SACRIFICE.

The Priest's Speech.

The Priest's Speech continued.

The Decree of Odin.

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The Priest's Speech.

“Odin hath spoken! The king of heaven
Answer dark to my prayer hath given;
Odin hath spoken a fearful thing,—
Hear, O people! and hear, O King!
The vow ye but this moment heard
Is in the far sky registered.

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Woe to him whose heart afraid
Shuns the vow his lip hath made!
Dreary life shall the doomed one lead,
And his grasp, when life is fled,
Never shall take the bowl of mead
From the hand of the mighty dead;
An honourless doom shall lay him low!—
Woe, for my lips have said it, woe!”