The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . the valleys and the wide-spread plains Until beneath her feet Siberia lay Down to the mountains of the INIanchu land; The snowy crests of lofty Stonovoi, The last defences Days bright armies held. Stretching from seas where summer never comes Down to those seas where winter never goes. Along tlie backbone of the Asian world, In solid phalanx Nights black bannered hosts Moved with momentum irresistible, Ever towards the west, like countless hordes Or Tartar tribes aiming the western world To overr
The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . the valleys and the wide-spread plains Until beneath her feet Siberia lay Down to the mountains of the INIanchu land; The snowy crests of lofty Stonovoi, The last defences Days bright armies held. Stretching from seas where summer never comes Down to those seas where winter never goes. Along tlie backbone of the Asian world, In solid phalanx Nights black bannered hosts Moved with momentum irresistible, Ever towards the west, like countless hordes Or Tartar tribes aiming the western world To overrun and utterly destroy; The Flowery Kingdom seemed all swallowed up, The great wall climbed, the Gobi desert passed, And Himalayas domes of ice and snow, (Which nearest reach unto the floor of Heaven,) Slunk out of sight, pale and inglorious, The sickly soldiers of the Sun there massacred. From Asias lofty roofs descending now With victory jubilant. Nights shadowy hosts Swarmed oer the realm of ancient Babylon, Their sooty tents pitched thick on Sinai, Old Egypt conquered, seized the pyramids;.
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