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The king, on foot, received his welcome guest With preferred friendship, and his coming blest: But Rustem frowned, and with resentment fired, Spoke of his wrongs, the plundered steed required. "I've traced his footsteps to your royal town, Here must he be, protected by your crown; But if retained, if not from fetters freed, My vengeance shall o'ertake the felon-deed."
KUONI. Heavens! so they do! Why, that was help, indeed. FIRST HORSEMAN. Give up the murderer! You have him here! SECOND HORSEMAN. This way he came! 'Tis useless to conceal him! RUODI and KUONI. Whom do you mean? The devil! What do I see? Is't he in yonder boat ye seek? Ride on, If you lay to, you may o'ertake him yet. SECOND HORSEMAN. Curse on you, he's escaped!
"Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
Not in worlds, as dreamed of by the wise, Not in heavens, as sung in poet's song, Not in e'en the people's paradise Yet we shall o'ertake thee, and ere long. Is that true which cheered the pilgrim's gloom? Is it true that thoughts can yonder be True, that virtue guides us o'er the tomb? That 'tis more than empty phantasy? All these riddles are to thee unveiled!
I will pursue to death this spiteful knight: Not earth's low centre, nor sea's deepest part, Nor heaven, nor hell, can shield him from my might: I will o'ertake him, take him, cleave his heart. The suspicions of the Indian were confirmed beyond a doubt.
Watch at the western gate of the park. His horse will be waiting for him there to carry him to Cambridge. After his tender leave-taking he will come to his exit a clear mark on the white garden-path for a steady hand holding a pistol. So you can whistle 'Good-night, cuckoo, as you haste to o'ertake the King." "'Tis an ingenious scheme," Sir Rufus mused. Halfman laughed grimly.
Said Beltane at last: "Messire, thou dost hear the hounds?" "In faith, my lord, I tremble to be gone, but an thou dost tarry, so must I." "Death shall follow hard after us this day, Sir Fidelis." "Why then, an death o'ertake us I must die, messire." "Ha, the hounds have winded us already, methinks! Hark! Hark to them!"
Marry! there is naught to do but to possess our souls in patience. I dare say, we will o'ertake the boy on the morrow." "Marry! yes, master. If he be out in this storm he will drown like a rat. Who would have thought that he could have kept so far ahead of us?" "They ride fast who flee from justice," quoth another sententiously.
He only knew he could not bear to see her, who had made Lance suffer so, till the first anguish had been dulled a little on the surface at least. "Why did'st thou promise such a beauteous day, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke!" And away up in Simla, Rose Arden was enduring her own minor form of purgatory.
So short is our life; yet with space for all things to forsake us, A bitter delusion, a dream from which nought can awake us, Till Death's dogging footsteps at morn or at eve shall o'ertake us. Refrain Oh, the world is fair at the dawning dawning dawning, But the red sun sinks in blood the red sun sinks in blood. I only wish that I could write down the music too.
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