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It is a long poem, in rimed couplets, giving a survey and criticism of the social life of various countries in Europe, and reflects many of Goldsmith's own wanderings and impressions.
"Although, if it had been summer time, we would have tried to make it more like Tennyson's 'Princess, but I think this carries the idea all right. Norma wrote the couplets, and they almost have a prophetic note. Don't you think so, Kit?" Kit agreed that they did, and long afterwards, up in the old cupola council room, she read them aloud to Helen and some of the Gilead girls.
When it was the Two Hundred and Twenty-eighth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when As'ad found himself bound and beaten and sore with beating he recalled his whilome condition of honour and prosperity and dominion and lordship, and he wept and groaned aloud and recited these couplets,
If thou bring me back an answer, thou shalt have of me five hundred gold pieces; and if not, then an hundred for thy trouble in going and coming. I answered, 'Do what seemeth good to thee; I hear and I obey thee. Whereupon she called to one of her slave-girls, 'Bring me ink case and paper, and she wrote thereon these couplets,
"Grief, cark and care in my heart reside, * And the fires of love in my breast My wasted form to all eyes shows clear; * For Desire my body hath mortified." Then she filled the cup and gave it to Naomi, who drank it off and taking the lute, sang these two couplets,
His most successful work at this time was his translations, which resulted in the complete Aeneid and many selections from Homer, Ovid, and Juvenal, appearing in English rimed couplets. His most enduring poem, the splendid ode called "Alexander's Feast," was written in 1697.
While speculations of this nature were rife among the spectators, the actors in the ceremony began their dances, which were distinguished by the quaint formality that belonged to the politeness of the age The songs that succeeded were in honor of Hymen and his votaries, and a few couplets that extolled the virtues and beauty of the bride were chanted in chorus.
And afterwards they sang the canticle of Bernadette, that long, long chant, composed of six times ten couplets, to which the ever recurring Angelic Salutation serves as a refrain a prolonged lullaby slowly besetting one until it ends by penetrating one's entire being, transporting one into ecstatic sleep, in delicious expectancy of a miracle.
"You see, it's only playfulness I remarked indifferently; the words being punctuated by necessity, rather than by choice. Magnificent, but not war. There's not a-shadow of vice in his com-position. As the poet says: This is mere madness, And thus awhile the fit will work on him. Anon as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets have dis closed, His silence will sit drooping.
Then he would tend his father all night long till daybreak, when he would go forth again with his cousin according to their wont. Now Zau al-Makan's pains and sufferings were lonesome upon him and he wept and began versifying with these couplets, "Gone is my strength, told is my tale of days * And, lookye!
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