Witch Girl (verse)

...She brought it blue wax berries from the cedar, And peat-like humus from the mountain-side...

...The legitimist party denies the legality of this law, which, with a curious curve in the policy of independence, is based on the actual expiration of just that "indivisibility and inseparability" which Charles VI had wrested ;rom the Diet of the kingdom of Saint Stephen in the Pragmatic Sanction...

...They made her shiver...

...Charles I, emperor of Austria and fourth apostolic king of that name, pronounced the coronation oath, "by God Almighty, by the holy Virgin Mary and by all the saints of God," gave the protecting sword-stroke over the lands toward the four points of the compass, and the crown was placed on his youthful, anxious, anointed brow, Two years later came the collapse of the Central Powers...

...For the legitimists the rightful king is the heir to the house of HapsburgLorraine, the youthful son of the last crowned king, who awaits his lawful coronation...

...The pressure of these circumstances created that dualism which lamed the proven capacity for evolution of the Hapsburg realm, and prevented the otherwise certain federation of the nations...

...It was the business of fire to burn...

...GRACE HAZARD CO~KLINC...

...itch Girl Solitary she would laugh like nobody's daughter Lost in dim eternities of fern, Sharing the laughter of the brown brook water, Nobody's love with nothing at all to learn...

...And when the darkness pounced from overhead To quench her, she refused to be a ghost Wavering before it, vague and little and lost: She hated the cold arrogance of the dead, Their soundless faces, and a legend herself, almost, A little outside life from her first breath, She clutched at living...

...For life had always been an Indian giver, She told the trees...

...had very little in common: foreign and military affairs and certain/inancial matters...

...Every word she said Was chosen to offend eavesdropping death...

...And so in the end dualism was the grave of the great and ancient monarchy...

...Hungary refused to allow the Slavs on both sides of the frontier to enter the union of nations on equal terms...

...Germain showed the fallacy of this hope...

...On March 2, I92o, the monarchy was reestablished, the kingdom of Saint Stephen...

...The entente, particularly the Little Entente~ Servia, Roumania, etc.--which had a territorial interest in the matter, prevented him...

...Juniper twigs she found to make it heed her, And feathery hemlock-rubbish bleached and dried...

...And what she ate would be a commentary On her far wandering, as like as not: Pungent-fleshed roots and wild fruit she would carry To stew with mushrooms in her iron pot...

...Certain Hungarian troops belonging to the Austro-Hungarian army, having for four years brilliantly sustained their centuries-old reputation for bravery, were the first to desert at the front...

...The Sacred Crown November 6, I929 - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . of Saint Stephen had been victorious over its wearer...

...Hungary's own long-desired army, composed of troops gathered together by a powerful hand, put a sudden and dictatorial end to the horribly cruel Soviet rule...

...Nicholas yon Horthy, formerly adjutant to the emperor-king and imperial and royal Austro-Hungarian admiral, who had set the Hungarian troops in order and led them home, who had overthrown the Bolshevist republic, had reestablished the kingdom and was now regent, also refused him entrance to the kingdom, and finally the army which was under his command did the same...

...the kingdom of Saint Stephen was cut down to the Magyar core...

...The sums necessary to cover common expenses were fixed by agreement every ten years...

...The crowned apostolic king of Hungary gave up his :.sword as a prisoner to the royal Hungarian army, to the royal Hungarian governor...

...Daylong she searched for fuels whose strange meaning The fire would translate in undertones, And when the coals were ripe and no flame leaning, She cooked her supper on three blackened stones...

...Others put up other candidates, one of them an archduke who, on account of large estates in Hungary, has been brought up as a Hungarian, and whose ambitious mother claims to have some drops of Arp~td blood in her veins . . . . Wrapped in silence, the regent and the government wait patiently for what the future may bring...

...In the castle of Buda, guarded day and night by an armed troop of knightly custodians, high above the fertile plain and the broad silver ribbon of the Danube, lies enthroned the Sacred Crown of Saint Stephen--Hungary's immortal king...

...At these meetings Hungary ever strove to attain more independence, and especially the division of the army...

...A kingdom without a king...

...The two halves of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the coronation oath...

...Once more, in the middle of the great war, the Sacred Crown of Saint Stephen was reverently drawn forth from its guarded shrine and in solemn procession carried over to the coronation church...

...IO COMMONWEAL THE dence and territorial integrity of Hungary, the archbishop placed the crown on King Francis Joseph...

...Twice the crowned king tried in romantic fashion to return from banishment to his sworn duties as a ruler...

...He died five months later on a distant island, a martyr A law passed the same year--I92I---declared that the Pragmatic Sanction of the year x723 and all other standards of right which determine and regulate the right of succession of the House of Austria have become null and void and the right of electing a king consequently reverts to the nation...

...They had been ordered home by demagogic agitators, more separatist than Bolshevist" they hoped for more advantageous peace terms for a Hungary severed from Austria...

...to these were added later the administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

...Finding them taciturn, She told the fire instead...