The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . ?i II ?!I i ?! I I I I I?! I I ?! ?! ?!. To loveliness transfiguring every scene. On everything most glorious tints are spread; Like waves of molten gold doth shine the sea; With rainbow hues the sky is all ablaze; Sweet music, like ^olian symphonies Thrills through the air and rolls along the earth, While mong the radiant clouds dance angel forms, With evolutions that make harmonies. Ended these seeming scenes of Paradise, The three remaining books the Sibyl brings: For these the self-same monst
The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . ?i II ?!I i ?! I I I I I?! I I ?! ?! ?!. To loveliness transfiguring every scene. On everything most glorious tints are spread; Like waves of molten gold doth shine the sea; With rainbow hues the sky is all ablaze; Sweet music, like ^olian symphonies Thrills through the air and rolls along the earth, While mong the radiant clouds dance angel forms, With evolutions that make harmonies. Ended these seeming scenes of Paradise, The three remaining books the Sibyl brings: For these the self-same monstrous price she asks, Though six to smoke and ashes have been turned. She smiles enchantment, and infatuate The awful price we pay,— a sum composed Of love and joy. Then, lo, her beauty fades, A hunchback hag of ghastly hideousness. She slowly melts in darkness from the view. Peals through the air a stunning thunder-clap, And all eclipsed the sun to darkness turns. Slowly ascend black clouds of fetid smoke, And with a funeral pall cover the earth. The buyer pales: his secret room he seeks;The books he opes and reads; his eyes he shu
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