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His anxious face with fierce desire that But her late foe stopped short amidst his burned.

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course,

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So was the pageant ended, and all folk. Talking of this and that familiar thing

But midst the loud victorious shouts he In little groups from that sad concourse heard

Her footsteps drawing nearer, and the sound

Of fluttering raiment, and thereat afeard His flushed and eager face he turned around,

broke;

136 For now the shrill bats were upon the wing,

And soon dark night would slay the evening,

And in dark gardens sang the nightingale And even then he felt her past him bound Her little-heeded, oft-repeated tale.

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Nor otherwhere since that day doth she dwell,

Sending too many a noble soul to hell.What! thine eyes glisten? what then, thinkest thou

Her shining head unto the yoke to bow? 175

"Listen, my son, and love some other maid,

For she the saffron gown will never wear, And on no flower-strewn couch shall she be laid,

Nor shall her voice make glad a lover's ear; Yet if of Death thou hast not any fear, 180 Yea, rather, if thou lovest him utterly, Thou still may'st woo her ere thou com'st to die,

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There to the hart's flank seemed his shaft Among all mothers for its cruelty? 235 Then know indeed that fate is good to thee,

to grow,

As panting down the broad green glades he flew,

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Unto himself, whose meaning scarce could "Nay, King," Milanion said, "thy words

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And all these troublous things awhile for- The marble feet of her that standeth there, get." That shrink not, naked though they be and fair.

"Nay," said he, "couldst thou give my

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