. Maud, Locksley hall, and other poems . - even akin. 8o Maud; 0 me, why have they not buried ine deep enough ?Is it kind to have made me a grave so rough, Me, that was never a quiet sleeper ?Maybe still I am but half-dead ;Then I cannot be wholly dumb ; 1 will cry to the steps above my head, And somebody, surely, some kind heart will comeTo bury me, bury meDeeper, ever so little A Alonodrama. 8i PART My life has crept so lontj on a broken wingThro cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear,That I come to be gratefnl at last for a little thing :My mood is changed, for it fell
. Maud, Locksley hall, and other poems . - even akin. 8o Maud; 0 me, why have they not buried ine deep enough ?Is it kind to have made me a grave so rough, Me, that was never a quiet sleeper ?Maybe still I am but half-dead ;Then I cannot be wholly dumb ; 1 will cry to the steps above my head, And somebody, surely, some kind heart will comeTo bury me, bury meDeeper, ever so little A Alonodrama. 8i PART My life has crept so lontj on a broken wingThro cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear,That I come to be gratefnl at last for a little thing :My mood is changed, for it fell at a time of yearWhen the face of night is fair on the dewy downs,And the shining daffodil dies, and the CharioteerAnd starry Gemini hang like glorious crownsOver Orions grave low down in the west,That like a silent lightning under the starsShe seemd to divide in a dream from a band of the spoke of a hope for the world in the coming wars —And in that hope, dear soul, let trouble have I tarry for thee, and pointed to MarsAs he glowd like a ruddy shield on the lyions breast. II. And it was but a dream, yet it yielded a dear delightTo have lookd, tho but in a dream, upon eyes so fair,That had been in a weary world my one thing bright;And it was but a dream, yet it lightend my despair 82 Majid; When I thought that a war would arise in defence of the right,Tha
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