Wayside pictures, hymns, and poems . L 2 A TALE OF THE MANACLES. DRAMATIS PERSON^E. Mkexa ....Erno ....First Boatman,Second ....Meenas Husband. Storm Spirits, The Drunhards country Maiden. Meenas Scene—A Common in Cormuall. Time —Evening. Meenawalking up the hill. I S^ S\ yM^^eena. The sky is red and glowing;VSrak;^ IM all below Is streaked with beauty, whether cloud or crag,Wind-waving fern or wondrous firmament,Pine-clump and peak and riverfringed with reeds;And there are ehcoes from the hollow hillsAnd mystic marshes, which tlie busy
Wayside pictures, hymns, and poems . L 2 A TALE OF THE MANACLES. DRAMATIS PERSON^E. Mkexa ....Erno ....First Boatman,Second ....Meenas Husband. Storm Spirits, The Drunhards country Maiden. Meenas Scene—A Common in Cormuall. Time —Evening. Meenawalking up the hill. I S^ S\ yM^^eena. The sky is red and glowing;VSrak;^ IM all below Is streaked with beauty, whether cloud or crag,Wind-waving fern or wondrous firmament,Pine-clump and peak and riverfringed with reeds;And there are ehcoes from the hollow hillsAnd mystic marshes, which tlie busy noonIn the full saving of labour heedeth motlier oft, when Eve lay down to dieam,Watclied by the gathering twiliglit, called me bade me hsten while the moon aroseAbove the crags that watched us, turning tearsTo beads of silver on her thoughtful face ;And then she pointed westward, where the lightWas like a crimson curtain, whispering if her words were harsh mid sucIj a psalmFrom lutes unstrained by action : List, my child,These muiinuring voices are the sounds of prayerFrom thickets thronged with trumpets, eacli a tongueWhich utters praises in the ear of God !Then came a blast with poison on its wings,Smiting her in i
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