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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear to the loves, and to the graces vowed
Last Line: Stilled by the ensanguined block of fotheringay!
Subject(s): Cumbria, England; Derwent (river) Great Britain; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


(LANDING AT THE MOUTH OF THE DERWENT, WORKINGTON)

DEAR to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed,
The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore;
And to the throng, that on the Cumbrian shore
Her landing hailed, how touchingly she bowed!
And like a Star (that, from a heavy cloud
Of pine-tree foliage poised in air, forth darts,
When a soft summer gale at evening parts
The gloom that did its loveliness enshroud)
She smiled; but Time, the old Saturnian seer,
Sighed on the wing as her foot pressed the strand,
With step prelusive to a long array
Of woes and degradations hand in hand --
Weeping captivity, and shuddering fear
Stilled by the ensanguined block of Fotheringay!





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