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Carew sat with his face in his hand, and after it was done arose unsteadily and said, "Come, Golden-heart; 'tis music such as charmeth care and lureth sleep out of her dark valley we must be trotting off to bed." That night Nick slept upon a better bed, with a sheet and a blue serge coverlet, and a pillow stuffed with chaff.
"Ah, still that heart, which oft has braved The danger where the daring saved, Love lureth o'er the sea; For many a vow at parting morn, That naught but death should bar return, Breathed those dear lips to me; And whirled around, the while I weep, Amid the storm that rides the wave, The giant gulf is grasping down The rash one to the grave!
As the sleuth-hound seeketh its prey, so did she seek her destruction. As the fowler lureth the bird into his net, so did she lie in wait for her. Yet she feared to destroy her openly, because that she was afraid of the fierce anger of her husband Ethelfrith, and his love for his daughter was great.
And his heart, contented never, Greeds to grapple with the far, Chasing his own dream forever, On through many a distant star! But woman with looks that can charm and enchain, Lureth back at her beck the wild truant again, By the spell of her presence beguiled In the home of the mother her modest abode, And modest the manners by Nature bestowed On Nature's most exquisite child!
Death's too strong for scorn; In the cheek the fairest, He But the fairest throne doth see Though the roses of the morn Weave the veil by beauty worn Aye, beneath that broidered curtain, Stands the Archer stern and certain! Maid thy Visionary hear Trust the wild one as the sear, When he tells thee that thine eye, While it beckons to the wooer, Only lureth yet more nigh Death, the dark undoer!
But ye Divell did presently conceive that naught might he accomplish by this means, since that men, affrighted by his roaring and astonied by ye fumes of brimstone and ye sulphur flames issuing from his mouth, wolde flee therefrom; whereas by subtile craft and by words of specious guile it more frequently befalls that ye Divell seduceth men and lureth them into his toils.
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