"oh, Spare Me His Life!", Lady Margaret Cried - Whence Came This?

[gl556tr]

My mother suddenly recited a poem from her school days, pre-1944. I have searched Internet using different parts of the poem, all unsuccessful. She quotes the following, but knows neither author nor poem-title (speech?):

"Oh, spare me his life!", Lady Margaret cried,
"As ye hope for pardon above,
And I"ll give you the heart out of my breast
For the sake of my own true love."
Not a limb she stirred, but as noon-day sun smote down on her temples fair
A fiercer sun could not melt the snow which streaked Lady Margaret's hair ...

I would appreciate any assistance in making a surprise for my dear ol' gal!
Thank you.

[donny48]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1iiPCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT248&lpg=PT248&dq=Oh,+spare+me+his+life!,+Lady+Margaret+cried,&source=bl&ots=XOuXu7YLeQ&sig=uR3Jclyc3GPc86G20GaL8PZD1gY&hl=en&;sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEta7xipPVAhXFKlAKHV_BBXUQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Oh%2C%20spare%20me%20his%20life!%2C%20Lady%20Margaret%20cried%2C&;f=false

[rowanwitch]

I wonder if it could be from an amateur work written by a teacher at the school and never published, maybe a school play? I will try a few odd searches and see as it sounds familiar.

[rowanwitch]

Well done I didn't think of a prose piece

[emmie]

i think Donny has the answer...

[gl556tr]

d: thank you for the link; that could be it; but my mother quotes exactly the same words.

r: I await your further comments with bated breath.

[Mamyalynne]

https://archive.org/stream/huntingpoems00whytuoft/huntingpoems00whytuoft_djvu.txt


Scroll to section 89 - Lady Margaret.

[Mamyalynne]

Here you can search through the book itself.

https://archive.org/details/huntingpoems00whytuoft

[gl556tr]

d & m: thank you very much for your trouble in finding the speeches my mother has often partially(!) reiterated.
I will insert relevant text into a photo-album (top-secret) I am preparing for Christmas.
Wonderful!

[Mamyalynne]

Oh she'll be thrilled I'm sure.