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The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum Poetry

On A Picture of Lady Jane Grey Reading Plato

Author: Martha Elvira Pettus
Source: "The Wayside Shrine: And Other Poems"
Year: 1914
Found here.

A Fair girl bending o'er an ancient page,
Her lovely head with thoughtful beauty crowned:
Thus Roger Ascham, pastor, friend, and sage,
Once, on a summer day, his pupil found.

" 'Tis Plato you are reading?" Here his glance
The volume seemed to scan, with earnest air:
"But why to-day? Why shun the maidens' dance,
When sunshine lies upon the lawn so fair?"

The girl looked up, her dark eyes full of peace:
" 'Tis here I find my happiness, you see;
Ev'n Plato knew from fear of death release—
And we, dear friend, have so much more than he!

"He wrote of immortality—how high
His noble words, that thrill your heart and mine;
He hoped—believed—the soul would never die;
But we—we know the Truth, and Power divine!"

So spoke the gentle girl, long years ago.
So speak we now (faith's whispers ne'er deceive!);
What God hath promised, she was soon to know;
And we shall see Him, Whom our souls believe!

Not vainly, Plato, in that soul of thine
Reason said grandly, "Hope—believe— adore!"
Our Faith, with lifted heart, replies: " 'Tis mine
To grasp his promise—Life forevermore."
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