Baxter, George: The Pictorial album: or cabinet of paintings for the year ...: Containing eleven designs, executed in oil colours: with illustrations in verse and prose (London: Chapman & Hall, 1837)

INTERIOR OF THE WARWICK CHAPEL.

Low before the cross she weepeth,
Weeping even while she prays;
Golden o’er her mourning garments
Fall the oriel’s coloured rays;—
Like the false and shining seeming
Of this life’s external show,
Veiling with an outward glitter
All that lies so dark below.
Many graves are round her lying,
Only one is in her heart;
How could one so lovely perish ?
Why should one so young depart ?—
With the crimson banners round her,
’Neath the scutcheon’s gilded shade,
’Mid her old ancestral honours
Is a youthful maiden laid.
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