THE LINDSAY’S BRIDAL.

[The first marriage of Colin, Earl of Lindsay and Balcarres, to Maurizia de Nassau, took place in extreme youth, at the court of James II., under the circumstances and with the result narrated.]

In blithe London Town

Ne’er such bridal was known

As this of Earl Colin the Lindsay so gay:

O’er the Border, in sooth,

Never came bonnier youth,

And the king’s self shall give the fair lady away.

The bridemaids and bride

Are here in their pride,

But why ere the rite this long pause and delay?

’Tis for Colin they wait—

The ‘Light Lindsay’ is late:

The bridegroom forgetteth his own marriage-day!

The envoy was meet,

And the bridegroom is fleet,

He stands at the altar in bridal array:

But what lacks he now?

Why this cloud on his brow?—

The ring that should make her his countess for aye!

Oh, a ring’s easy found

’Mid the guests standing round!

And a borrowed ring served on that strange marriage-day:

But when spoke was the oath

That united them both,

She looked on the ring, and she fainted away.

’Twas a ring with a tomb

And a legend of gloom,

And she wist that to death she was wedded that day.

They cheered her amain;

But, alas, ’twas in vain!

And she drooped and she died ere a year was away.

Jetty Vogel.

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