VIII.[1]
Yet oft-times in his maddest mirthful mood
- ↑ The original MS. inserts two stanzas which were rejected during the composition of the poem:—
Of all his train there was a henchman page,
peasantserved
Adark eyedboy, wholovedhis master well;
And often would his pranksome prate engage
Harold's
ChildeBurun'sear, when his proud heart did swell
With sable thoughts that he disdained to tell.
Alwin
Then would he smile on him, asRupertsmiled,
When aught that from his young lips archly fell
Harold's
The gloomy film fromBurun'seye beguiled;And pleased the Childe appeared nor ere the boy reviled.
And pleased for a glimpse appeared the woeful Childe.
Him and one yeoman only did he take
To travel Eastward to a far countree;
And though the boy was grieved to leave the lake
On whose firm banks he grew from Infancy,
Eftsoons his little heart beat merrily
With hope of foreign nations to behold,
And many things right marvellous to see,
vaunting
Of which ourlyingvoyagers oft have told,From Mandevilles' and scribes of similar mold.
or, In tomes pricked out with prints to monied ... sold
In many a tome as true as Mandeville's of old.
- ↑ —— Childe Burun ——.—[MS].
have committed previous to the 8th of December preceding (Murdris, per ipsos post decimum nonum Diem Novembris, ultimo præteritum perpetratis, si quæ fuerint, exceptis)" (Life, p. 2, note). The monks were a constant source of delight to the Newstead "revellers." Francis Hodgson, in his "Lines on a Ruined Abbey in a Romantic Country" (Poems, 1809), does not spare them—
{{block center|"'Hail, venerable pile!' whose ivied walls
Proclaim the desolating lapse of years: