Maud, and Other Poems

Excerpt from Maud, and Other Poems

Maud.

For there in the ghastly pit long since a body was found,
His who had given me life - O father! O God! was it well? -
Mangled, and flatten'd, and crush'd, and dinted into the ground:
There yet lies the rock that fell with him when he fell.

Did he fling himself down? who knows? for a great speculation had fail'd,
And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair,
And out he walk'd when the wind like a broken worldling wail'd,
And the flying gold of the ruin'd woodlands drove thro' the air.

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