Bells and Pomegranates.
4.So young, and yet
So tall and shapely!
5.Here's Lord Tresham's self!
There now—there's what a nobleman should be!
He's older, graver, loftier, he's more like
A House's head.
2.But you'd not have a boy
—And what's the Earl beside?—possess too soon
That stateliness?
1.Our Master takes his hand—
Richard and his white staff are on the move—
Back fall our people—(tsh!—there's Timothy
Sure to get tangled in his ribbon-ties—
And Peter's cursed rosette's a-coming off!)
—At last I see our Lord's back and his friend's—
And the whole beautiful bright company
Close round them—in they go!
[Jumping down from the window-bench, and
making for the table and its jugs, etc.
Good health, long life,
Great joy to our Lord Tresham and his House!
6. My father drove his father first to court
After his marriage-day—ay, did he!
2.God bless
Lord Tresham, Lady Mildred, and the Earl!
Here, Gerard, reach your beaker!
Ger.Drink, my boys:
Don't mind me—all's not right about me-drink.
2. [Aside.] He's vexed, now, that he let the show escape!
[To Ger.] Remember that the Earl returns this way—
Ger. That way?
So tall and shapely!
5.Here's Lord Tresham's self!
There now—there's what a nobleman should be!
He's older, graver, loftier, he's more like
A House's head.
2.But you'd not have a boy
—And what's the Earl beside?—possess too soon
That stateliness?
1.Our Master takes his hand—
Richard and his white staff are on the move—
Back fall our people—(tsh!—there's Timothy
Sure to get tangled in his ribbon-ties—
And Peter's cursed rosette's a-coming off!)
—At last I see our Lord's back and his friend's—
And the whole beautiful bright company
Close round them—in they go!
[Jumping down from the window-bench, and
making for the table and its jugs, etc.
Good health, long life,
Great joy to our Lord Tresham and his House!
6. My father drove his father first to court
After his marriage-day—ay, did he!
2.God bless
Lord Tresham, Lady Mildred, and the Earl!
Here, Gerard, reach your beaker!
Ger.Drink, my boys:
Don't mind me—all's not right about me-drink.
2. [Aside.] He's vexed, now, that he let the show escape!
[To Ger.] Remember that the Earl returns this way—
Ger. That way?
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