Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>IN PRISON</h2> <div class="cpoem15"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="id0"><span class="dcap">W</span>EARILY, drearily,<br/></span> <span class="id0">Half the day long,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Flap the great banners<br/></span> <span class="i0">High over the stone;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Strangely and eerily<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sounds the wind's song,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Bending the banner-poles.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">While, all alone,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Watching the loophole's spark,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Lie I, with life all dark,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Feet tether'd, hands fetter'd<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fast to the stone,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The grim walls, square letter'd<br/></span> <span class="i0">With prison'd men's groan.<br/></span><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Still strain the banner-poles<br/></span> <span class="i0">Through the wind's song,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Westward the banner rolls<br/></span> <span class="i0">Over my wrong.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="theend">THE END</p> <p class="center"> Printed by <span class="smcap">Ballantyne, Hanson &amp; Co.</span><br/> Edinburgh &amp; London</p> <div class="trans1"><p><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> <p>Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst archaic spellings have been retained.</p> <p>Many single- and double-quotation marks were omitted in the original publication. Logical corrections, made from this text alone, would only compound any discrepancies and therefore such punctuation remains as printed.</p> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />