The story and song of Black Roderick . Tis a rough place to carry thechild, wept the sad mother. But her father smiled upon theBlack Earl. Where but upon his heart shouldI?she rest? Is that not so, my son? S^M If it be not cold, muttered the#^sullen bridegroom, drawing his rein. Wrap thy cloak about her,cried the father, waving farewell. Wrap thy love about her, wept_the mother, hiding her face. % So rode the Black Earl and his1bride, followed by his sullen men-at-arms, gay with their wedding favors. To his weary little bride he spokeno gentle word, though she flutteredweeping upon his breast
The story and song of Black Roderick . Tis a rough place to carry thechild, wept the sad mother. But her father smiled upon theBlack Earl. Where but upon his heart shouldI?she rest? Is that not so, my son? S^M If it be not cold, muttered the#^sullen bridegroom, drawing his rein. Wrap thy cloak about her,cried the father, waving farewell. Wrap thy love about her, wept_the mother, hiding her face. % So rode the Black Earl and his1bride, followed by his sullen men-at-arms, gay with their wedding favors. To his weary little bride he spokeno gentle word, though she flutteredweeping upon his breast like to somewounded thing. For in his heart the gloomy Earlspake bitterly, and said he: Not upon thy hand did I hope to place my golden ring; I have put my own true love aside, to keep the clans together, and wedding thee thus 7 P Ok. been false to the desires ofmy heart, so do I turn from theewho art my bride. Thus did he take her to his castlein silence, and, lifting her from hissteed, bid her enter the strong gatesbefore him. So shut they with a clang upon her youth and her merry heart, and she § became the neglected mistress of the gray towers she had looked on from Vjjf afar, and bride of the great Earl she had dreamed of so long. But to the Black Roderick she was! as nothing; he sought her not, neitherdid he speak of her; she was but thecruel small hand that closed upon hisheart and drew it from its love,claiming him in honor her to her claim was he faithful,turning even his thoughts away, lesthe should be false to his vow. Butno more than this did he give her. So was she left alone, the youngbride who did not understand a8
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