The story and song of Black Roderick . ^ inside, hearing the voice, flew upward^and stung the evil bird so it fellaway into the darkness and was seenno more. And the voice from the heavenscried again, saying: Who hath let the little soul gogfree? And the bee answered:Her gentleness, for she loveth allthings, great and small, and hath fedfthe honey-bee when the earth re-k fused him its sweets. Now, as the spirit of the littlebride flew upward, freed from thegrasp of the evil bird, there came|Jf upon her again the cruel claws ofone of those two others that circledround her, holding her back upon
The story and song of Black Roderick . ^ inside, hearing the voice, flew upward^and stung the evil bird so it fellaway into the darkness and was seenno more. And the voice from the heavenscried again, saying: Who hath let the little soul gogfree? And the bee answered:Her gentleness, for she loveth allthings, great and small, and hath fedfthe honey-bee when the earth re-k fused him its sweets. Now, as the spirit of the littlebride flew upward, freed from thegrasp of the evil bird, there came|Jf upon her again the cruel claws ofone of those two others that circledround her, holding her back upon herway. Now, quoth she, I shall neversee the kingdom of heaven, and can-not reach the doors of paradise,and bitter exceedingly was her cry-ing. 62 P. But again a voice came from the|dark night, saying: Who holdeth back the comingsoul from her place in heaven? And the black, evil bird answered: £ Her despair, for she hath not^held her head high above her sor-rows, nor hath borne in patience hergriefs, but hath mourned the afnic- ^tions that were put upon her till her|^heart hath broken under her grief.^Therefore do I draw her down. And the voice from high paradisecalled out, saying: Is there none, then, to save herfrom eternal destruction? And a wild bramble upon themountain, hearing the voice, lifteditself upward, and, throwing a longspray about the evil bird, tore it sowith its thorns that it loosed itsclaws from the wrist of the youngbride and flew into the gloom. And the voice from the heavenscried again, saying:63
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