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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A PREACHING FKOM A SPANISH BALLAD Ladies who in chains of wedlock Chafe at an unequal yoke, Not to nightingales give hearing; Better this, the raven's croak. Down the Prado strolled my seigneur, Arm at lordly bow on hip, Fingers trimming his moustachios, Eyes for pirate fellowship. Home sat she that owned him master; Like the flower bent to ground Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken; Heedless of her hair unbound. Sudden at her feet a lover Palpitating knelt and wooed; Seemed a very gift from heaven To the starved of common food. Love me ? she his vows repeated: Fiery vows oft sung and thrummed: Wondered, as on earth a stranger; Thirsted, trusted, and succumbed. 0 beloved youth my lover Mine my lover take my life Wholly: thine in soul and body, By this oath of more than wife I Know me for no helpless woman; Nay, nor coward, though I sink Awed beside thee, like an infant Learning shame ere it can think. Swing me hence to do thee service, Be thy succour, prove thy shield; Heaven will hear in house thy handmaid, Squire upon the battlefield. At my breasts I cool thy footsoles; Wine I pour, I dress thy meats; Humbly, when my lord it pleaseth, Lie with him on perfumed sheets: Pray for him, my blood's dear fountain. While he sleeps, and watch his yawn In that wakening babelike moment, Sweeter to my thought than dawn Thundered then her lord of thunders; Burst the door, and flashing sword, Loud disgorged the woman's title: Condemnation in one word. Grand by righteous wrath transfigured, Towers the husband who provides In his person judge and witness, Death's black doorkeeper besides Bound his head the ancient terrors, Conjured of the stronger's law, Circle, to abash the creature Daring twist beneath his paw. How though he h...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458843241 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458843246 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $20.54 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 180 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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