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THE STORY OF QUEEN -ISABEL. 318
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in basel her y murdered chamber "by even lier on husband her ' s command bedwhere , and her his amazed body placed and very ,
horrified eyes behold , on the pillow a The dumb despair
A Of loyal a familiar heart uncovered face without and a hilt soul transfixed , stain ,
And Slow under spreading the close while dagger they gazed a . "
icion At this Isab last el refuses outrage to , caused live longer by John with ' s the cruel king and ; causeless saying that sus if
her p place , be void , a murderer shall not dare to ask the cause . " Forth with these words she went knelt ; and the men stood by ,
For To let the her last pass act ; of the such women a tragedy wept ; Was in her face the , the curtains y could of not her choose heart but weep .
It W seem ere lifted _'d as like if the curtains of that couch , To show a corpse . The very his king h in imself fear ,
Henceforward Trembled , and turn as she 'd away idshe dwe eyes lt apart . ; And some beli , eved she was , a faithless wife ,
Jud Some ged knew by her her conscience and , left faintl unscathed itied for her ruth ; wrongsy p
Desiring As men will to forget pity woes them , . " y cannot help ,
Solitudeand the slow fruitless fever of regret , wore upon this unhappy life , , and if the faint sounds of popular tumult , and the
winning of the Magna Charta reached her ear , It seemed to her like voices in a storm
" As To they men go whose down shi they p is s hea inking r but , far do not sea heed ; . "
So dwelt she until the death of John ; when after u forms of widowhood
! Fulfilled _NTot man , in because patience God , as ' s seal debt was to on God the , chain
_! N " ow sever'd " _, , hurries She quits back the to royal her stat own e in beautiful which she France had been where so lives wretched her , little and
, daughter , as once she herself had lived , "in the grey halls of Hug She h de sends Lusignan a herald . " humbly begging for a sight of her child ,
whom she had not beheld for six long years : " She did not ask this not claim
To It ! N was break seek a prayer the her treaty often . She ; would was Unconsciousl not keep a her , long ,
The "Which or supp she lication drew back strengthened and said to she reproach was content y ,
To He know must not her think daughter she , in murmured such noble ; she hands was . " glad
The Story Of Queen -Isabel. 318
THE STORY OF QUEEN -ISABEL . 318
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/25/
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