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Here is a courtship scene, down there in the romantic glades among the raccoons, alligators, and things, that has merit, peculiar literary merit. See how Achilles woos. Never mind the new personage, Leos, who is intruded upon us unheralded and unexplained.
Behold there, yonder comes a Cloud driving towards the Moon: I'l give you so much time, till that be past by; therefore be pleased to resolve quick, for otherwise I must go & seek my fortune by another. For a Soldier neither woos nor threatens long.
It doesn't compel through admiration: it woos through pity the great, impersonal kind of pity. "A single little turret that remains On the plains" Browning tells about all there is to tell about it, though he never heard of it; only they called it a "bastion" in the old days the little square adobe blockhouse that won't stand much longer.
Who wins his Love shall lose her, Who loses her shall gain, For still the spirit woos her, A soul without a stain; And Memory still pursues her With longings not in vain! He loses her who gains her, Who watches day by day The dust of time that stains her, The griefs that leave her grey, The flesh that yet enchains her Whose grace hath passed away!
"The eternal Flora Woos to her odorous haunts the western wind; While circling round and upwards from the boughs, Golden with fruits that lure the joyous birds, Melody, like a happy soul released, Hangs in the air, and from invisible plumes Shakes sweetness down!"
It is not character but incident that woos us out of our reserve. Something happens as we desire to have it happen to ourselves; some situation, that we have long dallied with in fancy, is realised in the story with enticing and appropriate details.
"Alas, my lord, I am but a poor casuist, but I feel that if I asked thee to forfeit whatever men respect, honour and repute for valour, to be traitor and dastard, thou couldst love me no more; and marvel you if, when man woos woman to forfeit all that her sex holds highest, to be in woman what dastard and traitor is in man, she hears her conscience and her God speak in a louder voice than can come from a human lip?
While it stays it never lasts over half an hour at a time, and is so broken by the crash of stupendous visions as not to amount to proper slumber. During its period of continuance the opium-eater woos its approaches with an agony which shows his instinct of the coming weeks of sleeplessness. It never rests him in any valid sense.
"It is, then, as the rhyme proclaimed; and it is Edward of Lancaster who loves and woos the daughter of Lord Warwick!" Something in her father's voice made Anne remove her hands from her face, and look up to him with a thrill of timid joy. Upon his brow, indeed, frowned no anger, upon his lip smiled no scorn.
The crown of a man's sin, because it is the disclosure of the secrets of his deepest heart as loving darkness rather than light, is turning away from the divine voice that woos us to love and to God. Oh! there are some of you that have heard that Voice too often to be much touched by it.
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