Chapter VII: Canto IV: The Prophecy

XXI.

[Blanche of Devan and Fitz-James]

Now wound the path its dizzy ledge
Around a precipice's edge,
When lo! a wasted female form,
Blighted by wrath of sun and storm,
In tattered weeds and wild array,
Stood on a cliff beside the way,
And glancing round her restless eye
Upon the wood, the rock, the sky,
Seemed nought to mark, yet all to spy.
Her brow was wreathed with gaudy broom;
With gesture wild she waved a plume
Of feathers, which the eagles fling
To crag and cliff from dusky wing;

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And loud she laughed when near they drew,
For then the lowland garb she knew:
And then her hands she wildly wrung,
And then she wept, and then she sung.

_PLATE LXXX_

PLATE LXXX.

This scene fills the fourth side of the room on which _The Lady of
the Lake_ is pictured, but does not illustrate any scene in the
poem.

_PLATE LXXXI_

PLATE LXXXI.

The Seasons.

Pastoral paper in neutral colors on the library of Prof. Ira Young
of Dartmouth, at Hanover, N. H. The four seasons are represented on
different sides of the room, blending into each other--sowing,
haying, harvesting and sleighing. Still on the walls in good state
of preservation. (p. 49)

_PLATE LXXXII_

PLATE LXXXII.

The Seasons.

Another view of Professor Young's library. The colors in this paper
are neutral.

_PLATE LXXXIII_

PLATE LXXXIII.

The Seasons.

Third view from Professor Young's library.

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Transcriber's note:

P.16. 'Huis-en-ten-Bosch' corrected to 'Huis-ten-Bosch', changed.
P.17. 'asked me ot', 'ot' corrected to 'to', changed.
P.36. 'country and and', taken out the extra 'and'.
P.89. 'Carousal' is 'Carousel', changed.
The Carousel is not a drinking party.
P.92. 'treaures' typo for 'treasures', changed.
P.103. 'are in the the original', taken out the extra 'the'.
P.115. 'when she' changed 'she' to 'he'.
Plate LVI, 'Carousal' is meant 'Carousel', changed.
Plate LXVI, 'Olympos' typo for 'Olympus', changed.

Fixed various commas and full stops.

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End of Project Gutenberg's Old Time Wall Papers, by Katherine Abbott Sanborn