Instant upon her flight, when every plume
Ruffling expands to catch the lifting gale.
She has the death; upward a little space

She springs, then plumb down drops: The victor stands,

Long listening, ere he hear the fall; at last,
The crashing branches of the unseen wood,
Far down below, send echoing up the sound,
That faintly rises to his leaning ear.

But, woe to him! if, with the mortal wound,
She still retain strength to revenge the wrong:
Her bleeding wing she veers; her maddened eye
Discerns the lurking wretch; on him she springs;
One talon clutched, with life's last struggling throes
Convulsed, is buried at his heart; the other
Deep in his tortured eyeballs is transfixed:
Pleased, she expires upon his writhing breast.

Of bulk more huge, and borne on broader vans, The EAGLE OF THE SEA from Atlas soars, Or Teneriffe's hoar peak, and stretches far Above the Atlantic wave, contemning distance. The watchful helmsman from the stern descries, And hails her course, and many an eye is raised. Loftier she flies than hundred times mast-height; Onward she floats, then plunges from her soar Down to the ship, as if she aimed to perch

Upon the mainmast pinnacle; but up again
She mounts Alp high, and, with her lowered head
Suspended, eyes the bulging sails, disdains
Their tardy course, outflies the hurrying rack,
And, disappearing, mingles with the clouds.

MARY STEWART,

QUEEN OF SCOTS.

A DRAMATIC POEM.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

MARY STEWART, Queen of Scots.

ELIZABETH, Queen of England.

ADELAIDE, Heiress of the Count de Verneuil in France. Lady LOCHLEVEN.

MELVIL, Ambassador from Mary to Elizabeth. GEORGE DOUGLAS, Brother to the Keeper of Lochleven Castle.

MONTGOMERY, Douglas's friend.

HAMILTON, Brother to the Earl of Arran.

ARGYLE, of the Queen's party.

CECIL, Secretary of State to Elizabeth.

Earl of MURRAY, Regent of Scotland.

STEWART, his Son.

GLENCAIRN,

CRAWFORD,

Duke of LENNOX,

BERNARD, a Friar.

A Shepherd.

Murray's partizans.

WINGFIELD, an Emissary of Elizabeth.

FRANCISCO, a Spanish Friar.

Warders of Lancaster Castle.

Burgesses, Soldiers, Guards, Gypsies, &c.