Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ROMAUNT OF HUMPTY DUMPTY, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH


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THE ROMAUNT OF HUMPTY DUMPTY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight, and the moonbeam sleeps
Last Line: The humpty up again.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime


'TIS midnight, and the moonbeam sleeps
Upon the garden sward;
My lady in yon turret keeps
Her tearful watch and ward.
"Beshrew me!" mutters, turning pale,
The stalwart seneschal;
"What's he, that sitteth, clad in mail
Upon our castle wall?"

"Arouse thee, friar of orders grey;
What ho! bring book and bell!
Ban yonder ghastly thing, I say;
And, look ye, ban it well!
By cock and pye, the Humpty's face!"
The form turned quickly round;
Then totter'd from its resting-place --

. . . . . .

That night the corse was found.

The king, with hosts of fighting men
Rode forth at break of day;
Ah! never gleamed the sun till then
On such a proud array.

But all that army, horse and foot,
Attempted, quite in vain,
Upon the castle wall to put
The Humpty up again.





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