Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume I/A Noble Lady

CHAPTER VIII.


ARRIVED AT HOME.


A pale and stately lady, with a brow
That might have well beseemed a Roman dame,
Cornelia, ere her glorious children died;
Or that imperial mother, who beheld
Her son forgive his country at her word.
Yet there was trouble written on her face;
The past had left its darkness.



Blanchard’s title is:

A NOBLE LADY