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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...joy, My own dear Genevieve She leant against the armed man, The statue of the armed knight; She stood and listened to my lay, Amid the lingering light. Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope my joy my Genevieve She loves me best, whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve. I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story--An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace For well she knew, I could not chuse But gaze upon her face. I told her of the Knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand; And that for ten long years he wooed The Lady of the Land. I told her how he pined; and ah The deep, the low, the pleading tone With which I sang another's love, Interpreted my own. She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace And she forgave me, that I gazed Too fondly on her face 1 But when I told the cruel scorn That crazed that bold and lovely Knight, And that he crossed the mountain-woods, Nor rested day nor night; That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade, --There came and looked him in the face An angel beautiful and bright; And that he knew it was a Fiend, This miserable Knight And that unknowing what he did, He leaped amid a murderous band, And saved from outrage worse than death The Lady of the Land;--And how she wept, and clasped his knees; And how she tended him in vain--And ever strove to expiate The scorn that crazed his brain: --And that she nursed him in a cave; And how his madness went away, When on the yellow forest-leaves A dying man he lay. His dying words--but when I reached That tenderest strain of all the.
| ISBN-13 | 9781151390790 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151390798 |
| Weight | 0.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 82 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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