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The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum Poetry

Lady Jane Gray, the Victim of Ambition

Author: Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Source: "The Sunflower; or, Poetical Truths for Young Minds, Religious, Moral, Micellaneous, and Historical; Forming A Collection of Original Poems, and Intended as a Continuation of 'Simple Truths In Verse'. By Mary Elliott"
Year: 1822
Found here.

For ev'ry fellow-creature's woe
The tender heart must feel;
And doubly should our pity flow
When virtue does appeal.

The sad events in hist'ry traced,
Too frequently we find,
Were caus'd by confidence misplaced,
On some ambitious mind,

Which sought itself to aggrandize,
Though crime should pave the way;
And few When tempted were so wise
As Suffolk's fair Jane Gray.

Edward the Sixth his crown devis'd
By will to Lady Jane;
A gift by her but little priz'd—
Who had no wish to reign.

Her husband's hopes, her father's pride,
She tried to overcome;
But when they would not be deny'd,
Submitted to her doom.

Her pious mind no pleasure knew
In sound of royal name;
She own'd the crown was Mary's due,
And fain would yield the same.

Scarce pass'd the forms that made her Queen,
Ere all her greatness fail'd;
And then how sadly chang'd the scene
When Mary's friends prevail'd!

Lord Dudley and his virtuous bride
Were to the Tower convey'd;
The victims of their parents' pride—
Born but to bloom and fade.

Queen Mary's creul orders were,
The youthful pair should die;
Which Jane with fortitude could hear,
Nor heave one selfish sigh.

With beauty, talents, sense adorn'd,
When aged but seventeen,
Meekly she died, more lov'd and mourn'd
Than England's bigot Queen.
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