Henry O'Meara Ballads of America

SHAKESPEARIAN PEARLS.
Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
--SHAKESPEARE

ISABELLA *

IN
"MEASURE FOR MEASURE"

EXALTED issue of our Shakespeare's dream,
  Shine, Isabella, Star of cloistral roll -
The shadowed lot thy vows of life redeem
Is lit with radiance from a vestal beam -
   An effluent lustre out thy virgin soul!

Clad with thy vesture of illumined clay
  That Nature and Religion blent endow
To fire men's hearts, yet guilt-wrought heat allay,
With psychic charms too subtile for decay -
  Before thy power their tyrant passions bow.

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Henry O'Meara Ballads of America

ISABELLA *

IN "MEASURE FOR MEASURE"

Edited and formatted by Sheldon Brown

IN
"MEASURE FOR MEASURE"