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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: THE GHOSTLY MAID. Sir Gerald couched his lance in rest, And rode, to do the king's behest, Down a green glade with flowers besprent, And ever as he onward went, He heard a sighing voice which said, Ah me oh most unhappy maid Sir Gerald look'd to right and left, He poised his lance, with action deft, To pierce the traitor who should dare Drive such sweet captive to despair, And make her wail, with many a sigh, A most unhappy maid am I But though with cautious step he stole Round yon green oak's gigantic bole, To seize the villain unaware, ? No captive and no knight were there He only heard among the leaves Faint sobbing, as of one who grieves. He thrust his shining lance between The matted creeper's verdant screen; He turned aside the ivy veil Which swathed the hollow tree; the pale And trembling willows seemed to hide Some secret in the sluggish tide. But look where'er he may, in vain Are all his toil and all his pain; Only a voice among the leaves, And sobbing as of one who grieves, Answer his call. Alas I ah me The plaint responds incessantly. Since then, Sir Gerald, bravest knight Of any in the noon-day fight, Seems all distraught, his blunted lance Seeks hungrily the fading chance Of pricking in that tangled glade The knight who grieves a captured maid. Oh wasted lance oh man undone Come out beneath the wholesome sun, And leave the fatal lure. They say No knight but came to rue the day On which he followed, unafraid, The wailing of that ghostly maid B. R. P. Belloc. VOL. IX. THE LITERARY LIFE. In ways which need not be particularized I have found out that some portions of what was said in the two previous papers under the ahove heading have been misunderstood or misapplied. I said...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217043564 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217043569 |
| Weight | 0.76 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $22.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 230 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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