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But farewell till our next, more friendly I hardly dare trust myself to say our happier meeting." He hastily turned away, but she called after him in sad lament: "Orion do not forget Orion, you know that I love you." But he did not hear; he burried on with his head bowed over his breast, down to the road, without reentering Rufinus' house.
O lord, look upon me, accept my lament, O goddess, look upon me, accept my lament, O known or unknown goddess, look upon me, accept my lament! In this strain he proceeds for some time, until he is interrupted by the priest, who briefly adds: O lord, do not cast aside thy servant, Overflowing with tears, take him by the hand!
Merwin broke into a run, and Longley kept with him, hearing only a rather pleasing whistle somewhere in the night rendering the lugubrious air of "The Cowboy's Lament ." "It's the only tune he knows," shouted Merwin, as he ran. "I'll bet " They were at the door of Merwin's house. He kicked it open and fell over an old valise lying in the middle of the floor.
'Alas! alas! for thee, thou great city, Babylon! Alas for thee, thou mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. The kings of the earth shall bewail thee, and lament for thee, when they see the smoke of thy burning."
'And when I go down to the battle, said he, 'shalt thou be sorry for our sundering? She said: 'There shall be no sundering; I shall wend with thee. Said he: 'And if I were slain in the battle, would'st thou lament me? 'Thou shalt not be slain, she said. Again was there silence betwixt them, till at last he said: 'This then is why thou didst draw me to thee in the Wild-wood? 'Yea, said she.
But lest you should think, from the praise I have given you, that flattery can find a place in Elysium, allow me to lament, with the tender sorrow of a friend, that a man so superior to all other follies could give into the reveries of a Madame Guyon, a distracted enthusiast.
Joe re-entering the kitchen empty-handed, to stop short and stare, in her wondering lament of "Gracious goodness gracious me, what's gone with the pie!" The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses.
To Frolich's delight and surprise, she appeared too busy, or was rather, perhaps, too happy to lament this mischance, as she would formerly have done. Possibly she comforted herself with thinking, that if the demon had set its heart upon the cheese, it might have been beforehand with the Lapps.
But let your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my trial, wherein if I be conquered there is one shamed that was never gracious; if I am killed, there is one dead that is willing to die; I shall do my friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me; the world no injury, for in it I have nothing; for I only fill up a place in the world which may be better supplied when I have made it empty.
But to hear her wonder and lament and suggest, with soft, liquid inflexions, and low, sad murmurs, in tones as full of serious tenderness for the fate of the lost key as if it had been a child that had strayed from its mother, was so winning, that, had her features and figure been as delicious as her accents, if she had looked like the marble Clytie, for instance, why, all I can say is
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