LYRICS. A Ballad of Kenelm 31 Two Irish Peasant Songs 33 In a Ruin, after a Thunderstorm 35 To a Child 36 In a Perpendicular Church 37 A Seventeenth-Century Song 37 Columba and the Stork 38 The Chantry 39 April in Govilon 40 On Leaving Winchester 41 On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George’s Chapel 42 Of Joan’s Youth 43 Passing the Minster 43 The Yew-Tree 44 Shropshire Landscape 45 The Graham Tartan to a Graham 46 In a London Street 46 Athassel Abbey 47 Romans in Dorset 49 LINES ON VARIOUS FLY-LEAVES. To Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 53 For Izaak Walton 53 A Footnote to a Famous Lyric 54 A Memory of a Breconshire Valley 56 Writ in my Lord Clarendon’s “History of the Rebellion” 57 A Last Word on Shelley 57 An Epitaph for William Hazlitt 58 Emily Brontë 58 Pax Paganica 59 Valediction: R. L. S., 1894 59 LONDON: SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889. _TO HERBERT E. CLARKE._ I. ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Holy of England! since my light is short And faint, O rather by the sun anew Of timeless passion set my dial true, That with thy saints and thee I may consort; And wafted in the cool enshadowed port Of poets, seem a little sail long due, And be as one the call of memory drew Unto the saddle void since Agincourt! Not now for secular love’s unquiet lease, Receive my soul, who, rapt in thee erewhile, Hath broken tryst with transitory things; But seal with her a marriage and a peace Eternal, on thine Edward’s altar-isle, Above the stormless sea of ended kings. II. FOG.