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'Twits ill the charterhouse of Perth, that the King and all his couit
Wore inct, the Christinas feast being done, for solace rind dhpurL
And the Queen was there, more stately fair than a lily in a garden set;
And ;■.= on the day when she was his bride, even so the King loved
her yet.

And now there came a torch-light glare, and a clang of arms there
came;

And not a soul in that space but thought of the foe, Sir Robert Gramme.
The King knew ah in an ins Unit's Hash; and 'ike a king did he stand;
But there was no armor in all the room, nor weapon Jay to his hand.

Ant.: ali we women f?cw to the door, and thought to have made it fast;
Bt.it the bolts wire gone and the bars wore goile, and the locks were
riven and brast.
Then on me leaped the Queen like a deer: “ O Catharine, help!" she
Cried,
And low at his feet we clasped his knees, together side by side.
^ Fot her sake most,1' I cried, and I marked the pangs that my words
could rintr,
o
“ Wrench tip the plank ! and the vault beneath shall yield safe har­
boring,1’

Then, he cried to the Queen, IL God’s will be done!"
For her hands were clasped in prayer,
And down he .-prang to the inner crypt;
And straight wrc closed the plank he had ripped.
And toiled to smooth it fair.

Then the Queen cried, "Catharine, keep the door, and I to this will
suffice! ”
At her word I rose, all dazed, to my feet, and my heart was fire and ice,
And now the rush was heard on the stair, and “ God, what helpr1" was
our cry.
I looked at each empty stanchion-hold. and no bar but my aim had I.