MY BEAUTIFUL LADY.
NELLY DALE.


BY
THOMAS WOOLNER, R.A.

CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:
_LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_.
1887.




INTRODUCTION.


"A ray has pierced me from the highest heaven--
I have believed in worth; and do believe."

So runs Mr. Woolner's song, as it proceeds to show the issue of a noble
earthly love, one with the heavenly. Its issue is the life of high
endeavour, wherein

"They who would be something more
Than they who feast, and laugh and die, will hear
The voice of Duty, as the note of war,
Nerving their spirits to great enterprise,
And knitting every sinew for the charge."