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Two dramatic poems by Menella Bute Smedley

Smedley, Menella Bute (1819 or 20-1877)

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BLIND LOVE:
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ACT I.
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Scene I.—A Garden.
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
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Scene IV.
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ACT II.
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Scene I.—A Room in Carlton's House.
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
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Scene IV.
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Scene V.
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ACT III.
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Scene I.—A Room in Grey's House, with a large Window opening to the Garden.
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
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Scene IV
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Scene V.
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Scene VI.
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Scene VII.
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ACT IV.
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Scene I.—A Garden—Evening.
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
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Scene IV.—A Boudoir in Grey's House.
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ACT V.
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Scene I.—A Room in Grey's House.
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Scene II.—A Room in Raymond's House opening to a Garden.
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Scene III.
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Scene IV.
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Scene V.—A Room in Grey's House, as before. Hope on the Couch, Avice kneeling beside her.
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Scene VI.
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CYRIL.
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PART I.—CHOICE.
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Scene I.—Cyril's Room. After Supper.
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Scene II.—The Drawingroom of Mrs. Vere (Cyril's Mother).
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PART II.—TRIAL.
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[Scene I.]
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PART III.—LOVE.
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Scene I.—At Bertha's House.
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Scene II.
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PART IV.—THIRTY YEARS AFTERWARDS.
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Scene II.—Vestibule of the Hall in which the Congress is assembled.
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LOVE FOR THE YOUNG.
  
BISHOP PATTESON.
  
A FACE FROM THE PAST.
  
LINES ON THE GREEK MASSACRE.
  
‘HE PREACHED TO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON.’

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BISHOP PATTESON.

An Angel came and cried to him by night,
‘God needs a Martyr from your little band;
Name me the purest soul, which, closely scanned,
Still overflows with sweetness and with light
That find no limit till they reach the Land
Whence first they sprang.’ Weeping for what must be,
He named them all, with love adorning each;
And still that Angel smiled upon his speech,
And, smiling still, went upward silently
Not marking any name. Amazed he knelt,
Pondering the silent choice. But when the stroke
Fell, not an Angel, but the Master, spoke,
With voice so strong that nothing else was felt:
‘Thou art the man. Belovèd, come to Me!’
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