The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . The Book of Ambition and Grief. Belaboring the waters and the winds, The skies and shores; the worlds fixed boundaries ?i Striving to overthrow, loud battering -y With billows, blasts and awful thunder-bolts y Those doors eternal that do keep confined y,, Old Chaos and his lawless giant sons, ^J Who once in ruins kept the universe; l^ Till by Jehovahs word all paralyzed, J^ And chained in dungeons deep forevermore. ^J The mighty world a boundless pit did seem, } As wide and deep and dark as Tarta
The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . The Book of Ambition and Grief. Belaboring the waters and the winds, The skies and shores; the worlds fixed boundaries ?i Striving to overthrow, loud battering -y With billows, blasts and awful thunder-bolts y Those doors eternal that do keep confined y,, Old Chaos and his lawless giant sons, ^J Who once in ruins kept the universe; l^ Till by Jehovahs word all paralyzed, J^ And chained in dungeons deep forevermore. ^J The mighty world a boundless pit did seem, } As wide and deep and dark as Tartarus, \f Where monstrous demons, lions, tigers, bulls, ^* Did fight each other with infernal hate, ^J While them, and all things else, the hurricanes, J^ The furious lightnings, and the mountainous waves, u In awful passion strove to overwhelm, ^J And with a devilish vengeance all annihilate. } At war infernal all the world did seem, Vf And nought but war infernal anywhere. \l Then with a sigh the Youth in sleep did lapse, ^ The ropes and masts split stump supporting him. l^ How long the tempest raged, what bolts of death v T
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