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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 Decree of Odin.

“‘I loosened the bonds which bind
The Pestilence, my slave;
I sent him forth as the wind,
I bade him stand in the midst of the land
And make it one vast grave.

“‘Well hath his work been done,
But he is working still,
Scarce is the time begun,
And the dead must sink and the living shrink
Till achieved is Odin's will.

“‘Take from the King his best,
The creature next his heart;
Then shall the land have rest,
Then will I chain the fierce Plague again.
I have said the word. Depart!’”