The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . The Book of Loves and Dreams. Then down the distant sky a meteor fell, Bursting far out upon the oceans edge. They both uprose thereat, their steps retraced, And where their paths did part they timidly Shook hands, and softly said : Good night, good night! And overhead cooed low a white sea-dove. That meteors flash somehow seemed ominous : Did it for them prefigure agony? Alas, how perilous the stream of love, And how oft wrecked the hearts that sail thereon, When bright the sky, tranquil the win
The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . The Book of Loves and Dreams. Then down the distant sky a meteor fell, Bursting far out upon the oceans edge. They both uprose thereat, their steps retraced, And where their paths did part they timidly Shook hands, and softly said : Good night, good night! And overhead cooed low a white sea-dove. That meteors flash somehow seemed ominous : Did it for them prefigure agony? Alas, how perilous the stream of love, And how oft wrecked the hearts that sail thereon, When bright the sky, tranquil the wind and tide : Such are its eddies, shoals and sunken rocks. CANTO 3.
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