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12 . MARGARET BEAUFORTc . ¦ ¦
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¦ " - ¦ l . the lived youn waves g a coup life of of le civil peaceful retired discord from seclusion , were Court in surg to that 'ing the inipregnable _aroxind Castle of tliem P fortress embroke and read y _wioist , y and to
birth break to over her the first king and dom . onl On y child the - 2 — 6 that th of son July who , 1456 , after , sh passing e gave union throug for h ever the y two vicissitude rival houses and peri of York l j" was and des Lancaster tined to be the centre to brin of g
, to a final termination the civil wars of the Hoses , which for sixtythree But y Providence ears had cos had t En not gland marked some _oiit of her the best Lady and Margaret noblest ' blood destin . y
as one of continued peace or happiness . She was to learn early ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ _'¦¦'¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ '¦ ¦ ' _" ' ' ¦ ' "'" - ' _- ¦ ¦ _' ' ' ' ' : ' ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦¦• ' - ¦ '¦ ¦ ' ~ that * " Fall Those . into we _shadow lean . # on soonest most . , lost . " _
Thus was her first taste of domestic joy quickly dashed with sorrow _; and in her sixteenth year she was leffc a widow with her infant
son horrors , scarce of civil & ve war mon whi ths ch old had , to just protect begu and n to rear rage . amidst The all Earl the of d
to R " ichmon Under St . David d this was ' marble s , b and urie Margar d stone at Carmar here et wr th inclosed ote en , the but inscription resteth was afterwards the on bones his remove tomb of the :
the noble 1456 which Lord the departed , third Edmund day out Earl of of the of this Richmond month world of in , father November the year -arid of brother ; on our whose Lord to kings God soul ;
Almig , hty Jesu have mercy . Amen . " ; When her little son was three oldthe widowed Countess
took him to his great-uncle , Henry years VI ., who , solemnly blessed him andlacing "his hand the child ' s headsaid : " This pretty boy
will , wear p the garland upon in peace for which , we so sinfully _contends It was a _jDrophecy but little understood then by any of the listeners
, to be realized only after many a struggle , many a hard-fought battle , many a hair-breadth escape . Could Margaret have foreseen all that
her in " beloved eace" child would was she to not pass have throug clasped h ere him that closer _" garland to her . " heart was worn and
fled with p him , far away to some mountain , home where the strife and turmoil of the worldthe contest for honor and powerwould never
, , have and cruel broken separation in upon ? their But lives the and All- torn wise her All- boy good from hid her from , by her a long that
anxious future ; and whatever danger was revealed to her she braced which up her fervent soul to meet iety it taug with ht that her courage and which and true throug nobilit h the y of various mind
'¦ . _¦'' phases fi of her eventful p : _' life Her , made , separated her steadfastl rise above , fixed its trials , its the vexa end
'¦ ; ' _& ) M _(^ : _^ | _ffip _^ ja _|^ _^ _g _^ _^ _^ rrows _^^ 5 ng . years . which eye was , her y from it upon were but as , " ; _- _^ S > _lf 6 _^ i _^|^^^ bLich the pilgrim has to travel ere he reaches home .
; _v _- _^ _^ _- fi fl _J ; ' _^ _^ _^ _^ © _MS _^ _^ _^ _^ _^ | _pf if _^ _^ _^ _^ l _^ i _- _^ _- _© lier "went , way alon even , scattering g ~ in _~ aowers the centuries sweet ' destined flowers .-to not come of ¦ to . ' charit " fade . _- . ¦ ' ¦ y ¦ away _'¦ ¦ : ¦¦ and _- _SiliilBllWosBom ,
12 . Margaret Beaufortc . ¦ ¦
12 . _MARGARET BEAUFORTc . ¦ ¦
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/12/
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