The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . n, lo, her beauty fades, A hunchback hag of ghastly hideousness. She slowly melts in darkness from the view. Peals through the air a stunning thunder-clap, And all eclipsed the sun to darkness turns. Slowly ascend black clouds of fetid smoke, And with a funeral pall cover the earth. The buyer pales: his secret room he seeks;The books he opes and reads; his eyes he shuts,And thinks;—then reads again, and ponders roads to power, fame and royal thronesThe books portray; each path and step i
The maid of Redenfayn, an allegory of two worlds, in three books: I The book of loves and dreams . n, lo, her beauty fades, A hunchback hag of ghastly hideousness. She slowly melts in darkness from the view. Peals through the air a stunning thunder-clap, And all eclipsed the sun to darkness turns. Slowly ascend black clouds of fetid smoke, And with a funeral pall cover the earth. The buyer pales: his secret room he seeks;The books he opes and reads; his eyes he shuts,And thinks;—then reads again, and ponders roads to power, fame and royal thronesThe books portray; each path and step is word one needs to say, each thing to do;But envy, fraud, deceit, hate, tears and bloodAre over all, the only price of see! upon the buyers face a love and truth he reads with eager happy days, and paths of comes a change. Despair beclouds his ebon words of woe the last leaf end:The six books burned the paths of peace disclosed,And told hotv men an Eden life on earthMight lire, and then an angel life in Heaven. II iI i!V. II.
Size: 1707px × 1463px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidmaidofredenf, bookyear1908
