The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons

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The Harp in lowliness obeyed	A
And first we sang of the greenwood shade	A
And a solitary Maid	A
Beginning where the song must end	B
With her and with her sylvan Friend	B
The Friend who stood before her sight	C
Her only unextinguished light	C
Her last companion in a dearth	D
Of love upon a hopeless earth	D
For She it was this Maid who wrought	E
Meekly with foreboding thought	E
In vermeil colours and in gold	F
An unblest work which standing by	G
Her Father did with joy behold	F
Exulting in its imagery	H
A Banner fashioned to fulfil	I
Too perfectly his headstrong will	I
For on this Banner had her hand	J
Embroidered such her Sire's command	J
The sacred Cross and figured there	K
The five dear wounds our Lord did bear	K
Full soon to be uplifted high	G
And float in rueful company	H
It was the time when England's Queen	L
Twelve years had reigned a Sovereign dread	M
Nor yet the restless crown had been	N
Disturbed upon her virgin head	M
But now the inly working North	O
Was ripe to send its thousands forth	O
A potent vassalage to fight	C
In Percy's and in Neville's right	C
Two Earls fast leagued in discontent	P
Who gave their wishes open vent	P
And boldly urged a general plea	H
The rites of ancient piety	H
To be triumphantly restored	Q
By the stern justice of the sword	Q
And that same Banner on whose breast	R
The blameless Lady had exprest	R
Memorials chosen to give life	S
And sunshine to a dangerous strife	S
That Banner waiting for the Call	I
Stood quietly in Rylstone hall	I
It came and Francis Norton said	R
O Father rise not in this fray	T
The hairs are white upon your head	R
Dear Father hear me when I say	T
It is for you too late a day	T
Bethink you of your own good name	U
A just and gracious Queen have we	H
A pure religion and the claim	U
Of peace on our humanity	H
'Tis meet that I endure your scorn	V
I am your son your eldest born	V
But not for lordship or for land	R
My Father do I clasp your knees	W
The Banner touch not stay your hand	R
This multitude of men disband	R
And live at home in blameless ease	W
For these my brethren's sake for me	H
And most of all for Emily	H
Tumultuous noises filled the hall	I
And scarcely could the Father hear	X
That name pronounced with a dying fall	I
The name of his only Daughter dear	Y
As on the banner which stood near	Y
He glanced a look of holy pride	R
And his moist eyes were glorified	R
Then did he seize the staff and say	T
Thou Richard bear'st thy father's name	U
Keep thou this ensign till the day	T
When I of thee require the same	U
Thy place be on my better hand	R
And seven as true as thou I see	H
Will cleave to this good cause and me	H
He spake and eight brave sons straightway	H
All followed him a gallant band	R
Thus with his sons when forth he came	U
The sight was hailed with loud acclaim	U
And din of arms and minstrelsy	H
From all his warlike tenantry	Y
All horsed and harnessed with him to ride	R
A voice to which the hills replied	R
But Francis in the vacant hall	I
Stood silent under dreary weight	R
A phantasm in which roof and wall	I
Shook tottered swam before his sight	R
A phantasm like a dream of night	R
Thus overwhelmed and desolate	R
He found his way to a postern gate	R
And when he waked his languid eye	G
Was on the calm and silent sky	G
With air about him breathing sweet	R
And earth's green grass beneath his feet	R
Nor did he fail ere long to hear	Y
A sound of military cheer	Y
Faint but it reached that sheltered spot	R
He heard and it disturbed him not	R
There stood he leaning on a lance	H
Which he had grasped unknowingly	H
Had blindly grasped in that strong trance	H
That dimness of heart agony	H
There stood he cleansed from the despair	Y
And sorrow of his fruitless prayer	Y
The past he calmly hath reviewed	R
But where will be the fortitude	R
Of this brave man when he shall see	H
That Form beneath the spreading tree	H
And know that it is Emily	H
He saw her where in open view	Z
She sate beneath the spreading yew	Z
Her head upon her lap concealing	A2
In solitude her bitter feeling	A2
Might ever son 'command' a sire	Y
The act were justified to day	T
This to himself and to the Maid	R
Whom now he had approached he said	R
Gone are they they have their desire	Y
And I with thee one hour will stay	T
To give thee comfort if I may	T
She heard but looked not up nor spake	B2
And sorrow moved him to partake	B2
Her silence then his thoughts turned round	R
And fervent words a passage found	R
Gone are they bravely though misled	R
With a dear Father at their head	R
The Sons obey a natural lord	R
The Father had given solemn word	R
To noble Percy and a force	H
Still stronger bends him to his course	H
This said our tears to day may fall	I
As at an innocent funeral	I
In deep and awful channel runs	H
This sympathy of Sire and Sons	H
Untried our Brothers have been loved	R
With heart by simple nature moved	R
And now their faithfulness is proved	R
For faithful we must call them bearing	A2
That soul of conscientious daring	A2
There were they all in circle there	Y
Stood Richard Ambrose Christopher	Y
John with a sword that will not fail	I
And Marmaduke in fearless mail	I
And those bright Twins were side by side	R
And there by fresh hopes beautified	R
Stood He whose arm yet lacks the power	Y
Of man our youngest fairest flower	Y
I by the right of eldest born	V
And in a second father's place	H
Presumed to grapple with their scorn	V
And meet their pity face to face	H
Yea trusting in God's holy aid	R
I to my Father knelt and prayed	R
And one the pensive Marmaduke	C2
Methought was yielding inwardly	H
And would have laid his purpose by	G
But for a glance of his Father's eye	G
Which I myself could scarcely brook	D2
Then be we each and all forgiven	E2
Thou chiefly thou my Sister dear	Y
Whose pangs are registered in heaven	E2
The stifled sigh the hidden tear	Y
And smiles that dared to take their place	H
Meek filial smiles upon thy face	H
As that unhallowed Banner grew	Z
Beneath a loving old Man's view	Z
Thy part is done thy painful part	R
Be thou then satisfied in heart	R
A further though far easier task	F2
Than thine hath been my duties ask	F2
With theirs my efforts cannot blend	R
I cannot for such cause contend	R
Their aims I utterly forswear	Y
But I in body will be there	Y
Unarmed and naked will I go	G2
Be at their side come weal or woe	G2
On kind occasions I may wait	R
See hear obstruct or mitigate	R
Bare breast I take and an empty hand	R
Therewith he threw away the lance	H
Which he had grasped in that strong trance	H
Spurned it like something that would stand	R
Between him and the pure intent	R
Of love on which his soul was bent	R
For thee for thee is left the sense	H
Of trial past without offence	H
To God or man such innocence	H
Such consolation and the excess	H
Of an unmerited distress	H
In that thy very strength must lie	G
O Sister I could prophesy	H
The time is come that rings the knell	I
Of all we loved and loved so well	I
Hope nothing if I thus may speak	H2
To thee a woman and thence weak	H2
Hope nothing I repeat for we	H
Are doomed to perish utterly	H
'Tis meet that thou with me divide	R
The thought while I am by thy side	R
Acknowledging a grace in this	H
A comfort in the dark abyss	H
But look not for me when I am gone	I2
And be no farther wrought upon	J2
Farewell all wishes all debate	R
All prayers for this cause or for that	R
Weep if that aid thee but depend	R
Upon no help of outward friend	R
Espouse thy doom at once and cleave	K2
To fortitude without reprieve	K2
For we must fall both we and ours	H
This Mansion and these pleasant bowers	H
Walks pools and arbours homestead hall	I
Our fate is theirs will reach them all	I
The young horse must forsake his manger	Y
And learn to glory in a Stranger	Y
The hawk forget his perch the hound	R
Be parted from his ancient ground	R
The blast will sweep us all away	T
One desolation one decay	T
And even this Creature which words saying	A2
He pointed to a lovely Doe	G2
A few steps distant feeding straying	A2
Fair creature and more white than snow	G2
Even she will to her peaceful woods	H
Return and to her murmuring floods	H
And be in heart and soul the same	U
She was before she hither came	U
Ere she had learned to love us all	I
Herself beloved in Rylstone hall	I
But thou my Sister doomed to be	H
The last leaf on a blasted tree	H
If not in vain we breathed the breath	L2
Together of a purer faith	M2
If hand in hand we have been led	R
And thou O happy thought this day	T
Not seldom foremost in the way	T
If on one thought our minds have fed	R
And we have in one meaning read	R
If when at home our private weal	I
Hath suffered from the shock of zeal	I
Together we have learned to prize	H
Forbearance and self sacrifice	H
If we like combatants have fared	R
And for this issue been prepared	R
If thou art beautiful and youth	N2
And thought endue thee with all truth	N2
Be strong be worthy of the grace	H
Of God and fill thy destined place	H
A Soul by force of sorrows high	G
Uplifted to the purest sky	G
Of undisturbed humanity	H
He ended or she heard no more	Y
He led her from the yew tree shade	R
And at the mansion's silent door	Y
He kissed the consecrated Maid	R
And down the valley then pursued	R
Alone the armed Multitude	R