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My Lord

LOUIS.

Rise-rise be happy.

[RICHELIEU beckons to DE BERINGHEN. DE BERINGHEN (falteringly).

you are—most-happily-recovered.

RICHELIEU.

But you are pale, dear Beringhen : — this air
Suits not your delicate frame

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I long have thought

Sleep not another night in Paris :

:- Go,

Or else your precious life may be in danger.
Leave France, dear Beringhen!

DE BERINGHEN.

I shall have time,

[Exit DE BERINGHEN.

More than I asked for, - to discuss the pâté.

RICHELIEU (to ORLEANS).

For you, repentance · absence - and confession!

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RICHELIEU.

Ah, Joseph!

[To LOUIS- as DE MAUPRAT and JULIE converse apart.

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See, my liege see through plots and counterplotsThrough gain and loss

grace

through glory and dis

Along the plains, where passionate Discord rears
Eternal Babel - still the holy stream

Of human happiness glides on!

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Sways the harmonious mystery of the world,
Ev'n better than prime ministers!

Alas!

Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind;
Still, like the cloud which drops on unseen crags
The dews the wild-flower feeds on, our ambition
May from its airy height drop gladness down
On unsuspected virtue ; - and the flower
May bless the cloud when it hath passed away!*

*The image and the sentiment in the concluding lines are borrowed from a passage in one of the writings attributed to the Cardinal.

POEMS.

EVA.

A TRUE STORY.

I.

THE MAIDEN'S HOME.

A COTTAGE in a peaceful vale;
A jasmine round the door;
A hill to shelter from the gale;
A silver brook before.

O, sweet the jasmine's buds of snow,
In mornings soft with May!
O, silver-clear the waves that flow,
Reflecting heaven, away!

A sweeter bloom to Eva's youth
Rejoicing Nature gave;

And heaven was mirrored in her truth

More clear than on the wave Oft to that lone, sequestered place

My boyish steps would roam, There was a look in Eva's face

That seemed a smile of home.

And oft I paused to hear at noon

A voice that sang for glee :

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Or mark the white neck glancing down, — The book upon the knee —

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