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When we tried to follow we were prevented; they wished her to die alone among her enemies; but at last two of the ladies were allowed to go with her. "I ran out another way, and sent a message to my Lord Shrewsbury, who knew me at court. As I waited in the courtyard, the musicians there were playing 'The Witches' Dirge, as is done at the burnings and all to mock at my queen!
And their dirge swept across the desert as they answered as she called: "Thy Master, O my people, has started upon a long journey. Allah receive him at his journey's end into His safe keeping!" "Our Master," they answered, "is absent upon a long journey. Allah guide his feet into eternal joy."
She thought that she had never before heard the dirge of her country so piercing, so thrillingly awful. Her head fell on the armor and scarf. "Sweet lady," sighed she to herself, "who is it that dares thus invade thy duties? But my gratitude-gratitude to the once-loved lord, will not offend thy pure spirit!"
He had settled up his business affairs, arranging for a goodly sum to go to his beloved daughter; he had bought the coffin in which his own body would be laid away and had stored it in one of the principal rooms of his dwelling; he had even engaged the priests and musicians who should chant his funeral dirge, and, last but not least, he had arranged with the man who would have charge of chopping off his head, that one fold of skin should be left uncut, as this would bring him better luck on his entry into the spiritual world than if the head were severed entirely from the body.
Death and Burial of two Female Slaves. Dirge on the Death of one of them, whipped at the point of Death. Power of the Sun in Sahara. Desert Mosques. 6th. ROSE early, but did not start until the sun was well up, on account of the slaves. These Nigritian people cannot bear the cold. Our northern cold affects them more than their southern heat does us.
Bryerly you recollect the thin gentleman, in spectacles and a black wig, who spent three days here last month should come and enquire for the key, you understand, in my absence. 'Yes, sir. So he kissed me on the forehead, and said 'Let us return. Which, accordingly, we did, in silence; the storm outside, like a dirge on a great organ, accompanying our flitting.
Only the flash-light from France glimmered upon the poor dead beast, coming all the way to cheer him; only the green eye from beyond the Goodwins blinked upon his unheaving flanks. And from far ahead came back to his deaf ears with ever-diminishing intensity our noisy madrigal most music-hall, most melancholy his only dirge: Mary Jane was a farmer's daughter, Mary Jane did what she oughter.
"To literary imposition, as tending to obscure the path of inquiry, Ritson gave no quarter," says this arch literary impostor. A brief account of Surtees' labour in the field of sham ballad writing may be fresh to many people who merely know him as the real author of "Barthram's Dirge" and of "The Slaying of Anthony Featherstonhaugh."
I have stood beside Mordaunt's tomb: his will had directed that he should sleep not in the vaults of his haughty line; and his last dwelling is surrounded by a green and pleasant spot. The trees shadow it like a temple; and a silver though fitful brook wails with a constant yet not ungrateful dirge at the foot of the hill on which the tomb is placed.
Pease was attended in one of the Greek churches, and the Greek priests led the way in the procession, chanting the funeral dirge, in which there was nothing exceptionable; leaving at home, out of deference to the father, the cross, the cherubim, and the incense. In August, 1839, in consequence of remaining too long at Larnica, Mr.
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