The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . i)l The Book of Loirs and Dreams. Your eyes gaze through down to your very heart?And your soul touch with mine in mutual thought,Pure loves delight and only nutriment ?His brow she smoothed, and kissed his lips and eyes. Yes, tis the soul that loves and not the flesh, He whispered as her face he drew to his; Yet, loves a hunger not quite satisfied Without both soul and flesh: one touch of thee Like this is more than days of loving thoughts, And nights of dreams. Angels may angels love. And happy
The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . i)l The Book of Loirs and Dreams. Your eyes gaze through down to your very heart?And your soul touch with mine in mutual thought,Pure loves delight and only nutriment ?His brow she smoothed, and kissed his lips and eyes. Yes, tis the soul that loves and not the flesh, He whispered as her face he drew to his; Yet, loves a hunger not quite satisfied Without both soul and flesh: one touch of thee Like this is more than days of loving thoughts, And nights of dreams. Angels may angels love. And happy be, in thought, though miles apart. For thoughts their onlj* sense; but flesh are we. And ah, unless we see, and hear, and feel, Her whom we love, in pain our souls do writhe; For love unsatisfied is agony. The bliss of love is when the one beloved By words and smiles and kiss reciprocates With all her heart and soul, body and mind. Oh, I do grieve to think youve suffered so, In sorrow-tones she said, bending her brow Upon his neck, and sobbing piteously,— The while her hair he stroked, and kissed her cheek. Her anguish past
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