Gordon Bottomley

What poets sang in Atlantis? Who can tell The epics of Atlantis or their names? The sea hath its own murmurs, and sounds not

Lost towers impend, copeless primeval props Of the new threatening sky, and first rude digits Of awe remonstrance and uneasy power

SEPTEMBER 1910 (For a Solemn Music) Out of a silence

TO T. STURGE MOORE The years come on, the years go by, And in my Northern valley I,

(To T.S.M.) DRAMATIS PERSONAE: LEAR, King of Britain.

Laodice And Dana' "And, O, perchance it is the fairest lot At once to be a queen and be forgot;

(To J.S. and A.W.S.) In entering the town, where the bright river Shrinks in its white stone bed, old thoughts return

Midsummer Eve TO CLINTON BALMER AND THE DEAR MEMORY OF

O, Cartmel bells ring soft to-night, And Cartmel bells ring clear, But I lie far away to-night,

TO MY DEAR SCRIBE PERSONS:

The snow had fallen many nights and days; The sky was come upon the earth at last, Sifting thinly down as endlessly

Gordon Bottomley [Footnote 1: This play is reprinted by permission of and by arrangement with Constable and Company, Limited, London.] CHARACTERS