45 8. Look, a horse at the door, And little King Charley snarling, Go back, my lord, across the moor, You are not her darling. 46 XIII. 1. SCORN'D, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn, Is that a matter to make me fret? That a calamity hard to be borne ! Well, he may live to hate me yet. I past him, I was crossing his lands; He stood on the path a little aside; His face, as I grant, in spite of spite, And six feet two, as I think, he stands ; But his essences turn'd the live air sick, Sunn'd itself on his breast and his hands. 2 Who shall call me ungentle, unfair, And curving a contumelious lip, With a stony British stare. 3 Why sits he here in his father's chair? That old man never comes to his place : Shall I believe him ashamed to be seen? For only once, in the village street, Last year, I caught a glimpse of his face, A gray old wolf and a lean. Scarcely, now, would I call him a cheat ; For then, perhaps, as a child of deceit, She might by a true descent be untrue; And Maud is as true as Maud is sweet: Tho' I fancy her sweetness only due To the sweeter blood by the other side; Her mother has been a thing complete, However she came to be so allied. And fair without, faithful within, Maud to him is nothing akin : Some peculiar mystic grace Made her only the child of her mother, And heap'd the whole inherited sin On that huge scapegoat of the race, All, all upon the brother. 4. Peace, angry spirit, and let him be! Has not his sister smiled on me? XIV. 1. MAUD has a garden of roses And lilies fair on a lawn; There she walks in her state And tends upon bed and bower, And thither I climb'd at dawn A lion ramps at the top, He is claspt by a passion-flower. 2. Maud's own little oak-room (Which Maud, like a precious stone |