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Rh When told at fire-side eves by those who saw Executed—the lady and the law.

She and the law found rest: years rose and set;
 * That generation, cottagers and kings,

Slept with their fathers, and the violet
 * Has mourned above their graves a hundred springs:

Few persons keep a file of the Gazette,
 * And almanacs are sublunary things,

So that her fame is almost lost to earth, As if she ne’er had breathed; and of her birth,

And death, and lonely life’s mysterious matters,
 * And how she played, in our forefathers’ times,

The very devil with their sons and daughters;
 * And how those “delicate Ariels” of her crimes,

The spirits of the rocks, and woods, and waters,
 * Obeyed her bidding when in charmed rhymes,

She muttered, at deep midnight, spells whose power Woke from brief dream of dew the sleeping summer flower,

And hushed the night-bird’s solitary hymn,
 * And spoke in whispers to the forest-tree,