Pearl in thy crown royal set;
Scotland's other Margaret.

Margaret Tudor, daughter to Henry VII, married in 1502 to James IV, and
afterwards to Lord Angus, was thus great-grandmother on both sides to
James I of England.

_Gwynedd's child_; The Tudors intermarried with the old royal family of
North Wales, in whose pedigree occur the girl-names Gwenllian and
Angharad.

_Other Margaret_; Sister to Edgar the Etheling, and wife to Malcolm. Her
life and character are in contrast to the unhappy and unsatisfactory
career of Margaret Tudor, whom I have here only treated as at once
representing and uniting England, Scotland, and Wales.



LONDON BRIDGE


July 6: 1535

The midnight moaning stream
Draws down its glassy surface through the bridge
That o'er the current casts a tower'd ridge,
Dark sky-line forms fantastic as a dream;
And cresset watch-lights on the bridge-gate gleam,
Where 'neath the star-lit dome gaunt masts upbuoy
No flag of festive joy,