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Show AT THE THEATRE. On thi stage an acted horror, A King ennie-b uinted to doatli; Arouiid mo glitter and g'aie, And funsthat hurry an air Tiia'. stifk's mo hVeath by broatli. And oyos all ono ivhv gaxing On themsgical maaer-playor, VVlioeu face, diatnelcon-wiau, Hellecls all moon- that arise Craft, crime, and credulous pray or. I g.-izo and listen but sudden i dream in midst of tho play; And tho King may threaten or whine, It Eccnn no matter of mine I am twenty miles away, Down in a mo;sy dingle, Whoro sinless a stranger to pain, And friend to all winds that blow, And hoaiiDg the fiv;h herbs grow, And feeling tho dew oriltotain. A slight wind-flower is hiding, Creun-scaifc i, -white-faced aa the snow; The young yuar's curliest child, That 1 tVund last morn growirg wild, And spoke with and left it to grow. |