[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