[THE FORGE.][44]

A ROMANCE OF THE IRON AGE.

"Who's here, beside foul weather?"—KING LEAR.

"Mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me,

Should have stood that night against my fire"

—CORDELIA

PART I

Like a dead man gone to his shroud,

The sun has sunk in a copper cloud,

And the wind is rising squally and loud