Mae Madden by Mary Murdoch Mason Terms Contents Introductory Poems Chapter I. ... Chapter XIV. Introductory Poems he wheel of fortune guide you,
The boy with the bow beside you
Run aye in the way, till the dawn of day
And a luckier lot betide you.
Ben Jonson.
A DREAM OF ITALY. AN ALLEGORY INTRODUCING "MAE MADDEN." I. We two had been parted, God pity us, when
The stars were unnamed and when heaven was dim;
We two had been parted far back on the rim
And the outermost border of heaven's red bars:
We two had been parted ere the meeting of men
Or God had set compass on spaces as yet. We two had been parted ere God had set His finger to spinning the spaces with stars, And now, at the last in the gold and set Of the sun of Venice, we two had met. II. Where the lion of Venice, with brows afrown, With tossed mane tumbled, and teeth in air, Looks out in his watch o'er the watery town, With a paw half lifted, with his claws half bare, By the blue Adriatic, in the edge of the sea, I saw her. I knew her, but she knew not me. I had found her at last! Why, I had sailed The antipodes through, had sought, had hailed | |
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