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    Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst
    Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst
    Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst
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    Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst

    By William Stephen Pryer

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst - William Stephen Pryer

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      Title: Rowena & Harold

      A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst

      Author: Wm. Stephen Pryer

      Release Date: May 17, 2007 [EBook #21509]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROWENA & HAROLD ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      Cover art—Old Ragnor's Crypt.

      Wm. Stephen Pryer

      DEDICATION.

      DEO LAUS.

      In grateful remembrance of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria's unprecedentedly long, illustrious, and beneficent reign of sixty years (1837-97), and of fifty years of service (1847-97) in the cause of National Education by Her Majesty's most loyal and devoted servant,

      THE AUTHOR.

      ROWENA & HAROLD:

      A Romance in Rhyme

      Of an Olden Time,

      Of Hastyngs and Normanhurst.

      by

      WM. STEPHEN PRYER,

      Author of Thought Crystals in Verse, Etc.

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS & PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.

      London:

      WARD, LOCK & CO.

      Forest Gate, E.:

      THE ELECTRIC PUBLISHING CO.

      1897

      INDEX.

      Old Ragnor's Cliffs

      Sir Guy de Warre

      Sir Harold Wynn

      Sir Harold Spurned

      The Deserted Eyrie

      Sir Harold Sails

      Rowena's Lonely Vigil

      Rowena's Song

      Sir Harold at Acre

      The Saracen Maid's Secret

      The Secret Assassin

      The Light in the Turret Tower

      Death at Ragnor's Tower

      Rowena's Grief

      Rowena's Lament

      The Holy Friar's Consolation

      Rowena Enters a Convent

      Nigh unto Death

      The Demon Wrecker

      Old Ragnor's Dungeons Grim

      Eric Entombed

      The Rift in Hell Gate

      The Crucified One

      Eric Faithful unto Death

      Eric to be Crucified

      To Die or Live

      Eric Escapes

      The Smuggler's Den

      Rowena's Fiery Furnace

      The Dungeon's Angel

      Rediviva

      Convalescent

      Rowena's Te Deum

      The Lights of Home

      The Lamp of Death

      The Wreck of The Holy Cross

      Grief at Wynnwood Hall

      Saved

      Two Lives in One

      The Lost Missive

      Another Dungeon Tenant

      Nemesis

      The Demon Exorcised

      Father and Child

      Reconciliation

      A Royal Visitor

      The Royal Pardon

      The Deserted Brides

      Heart Chords

      Home, Sweet Home

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Old Ragnor's Crypt . . . . . . . . . Cover Art

      Wm. Stephen Pryer . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

      The Castle, Hastyngs.

      St. Hilda's Keep.

      THE CASTLE, HASTYNGS.

      Old Ragnor's Cliffs.

      Like some horrific Gorgon's mammoth skull,

      Thrown up by Titan spade,

      From out those caves

      Where saurians with mastodons had played,

      Before the sea had made their homes their graves,

      And scared their ghosts with screech of sea-born mew and gull,

      Is Ragnor's beetling brow, the seaman's dread,

      That scowls by night and day

      On that same sea

      And with earth-shaking sound is heard to say,—

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