| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Natura Maligna |
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| THE LADY of the Hills with crimes untold | |
| Follow’d my feet, with azure eyes of prey; | |
| By glacier-brink she stood,—by cataract-spray— | |
| When mists were dire, or avalanche-echoes roll’d. | |
| At night she glimmer’d in the death-wind cold, | 5 |
| And if a foot-print shone at break of day, | |
| My flesh would quail, but straight my soul would say: | |
| “’T is hers whose hand God’s mightier hand doth hold.” | |
| I trod her snow bridge, for the moon was bright, | |
| Her icicle-arch across the sheer crevasse, | 10 |
| When lo, she stood!… God made her let me pass, | |
| Then fell’d the bridge!… Oh, there in sallow light, | |
| There down the chasm, I saw her cruel, white, | |
| And all my wondrous days as in a glass. | |
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