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The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum Poetry

Stanzas: To the Lady Jane Grey, at Bradgate

Source: "The London Magazine" By John Scott, John Taylor
Year: 1822
Found here.

This was thy home then, gentle Jane!
This thy green solitude;—and here
At evening, from thy gleaming pane,
Thine eye oft watch'd the dappled deer,
While the soft sun was in its wane,
Browsing beneath the brooklet clear:
The brook runs still, the sun sets now,
The deer yet browseth; where art thou?

Oh, gentle Dudley! Where art thou?
Have years so roll'd that not a track
Of even thy chamber lingereth now
To call thine image sweetlier back?
The careless chair at window bow,
The ruin'd lute, the crumbling wrack
Of broidery, the forgotten glove,
The learned book, thy virgin love;—

None, none of these abide to tell
Thy gentle tale,—yet it is told!
The silence of the breathless dell
Is musical of thee; the cold
And mournful water passeth well
Thy house's ruin, as of old,
And pineth with a watery sound
Its little hymn to thy lone ground!

The air is sainted;—never shone
More tender light on greener grass,
Than that which kisseth turf and stone
Of thy decayed house; alas!
The aged drowsing trees make moan
For thee, sweet girl! And many a lass
Pauseth at morn upon her way,
And grieveth for the Lady Grey.

Here was thy life! Here was thy bower,
By this light water! Thy hard death,
Was far away in town and tower,
And cruel hands destroy'd thy breath:
Might they not let so young a flower
Bud all its beauty in life's wreath?
What must have been that guilty sense,
That had such fear of inneconce!

But though thy young and bridal heart
Was tortured, thy brave spirit, still
Untroubled, left, its mortal part,
And halloweth now each dell and hill:
It liveth by a gracious art
For ever here; and that wild thrill
The strangers feels of love and pain,
Is the present voice of the Lady Jane.
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