In Cornwall and Across the Sea With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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MARGARET OF SCOTLAND. |
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MARGARET OF SCOTLAND.
There's magic in the name of Margaret,The sweetest sound in Scotland, though the two
Best-worshipped Margarets she ever knew
Were English: one is saint of Scotland yet.
The other we pourtray with lashes wet
For him her countrymen at Flodden slew,
And found, his mail arust with autumn dew,
'Mid bishop, earl, and doughty banneret
Upon the morrow-morning. Yet for me
The name wakes not the Scots' kings' English queens
Widowed by English arrows, but the glee,
Blue eyes, and glittering hair and proud sweet miens
Of two of Scotland's daughters—born afar
From Tweed or Aln—'neath the southern star.
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