Page:General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems.djvu/111

Rh She banished from her kingdom The mortal boy I grew&mdash; So tall and crude and noisy, I killed grasshoppers too. I threw big rocks at pigeons, I plucked and tore apart The weeping, wailing daisies, And broke my lady's heart. At length I grew to manhood, I scarcely could believe I ever loved the lady, Or caused her court to grieve, Until a dream came to me, One bleak first night of Spring, Ere tides of apple blossoms Rolled in o'er everything, While rain and sleet and snowbanks Were still a-vexing men, Ere robin and his comrades Were nesting once again. I saw Mab's Book of Judgment&mdash; Its clasps were iron and stone, Its leaves were mammoth ivory, Its boards were mammoth bone,&mdash; Hid in her seaside mountains, Forgotten or unkept,