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Updated: June 27, 2025
Then, about six weeks after I had received the said book, it fell out that I being in bed with my wife one night, between twelve and one of the clock, she being asleep, but myself yet awake, there appeared unto me an ancient man, standing at my bedside, arrayed all in white, having a long and broad white beard hanging down to his girdle-stead, who, taking me by my right ear, spake these words following unto me:-'Sirrah! will not you take time to translate that book which is sent unto you out of Germany?
But as to this flowery array of thine, in a few hours it shall be all faded and nought. Nay, even now, as I look on thee, the meadow-sweet that hangeth from thy girdle-stead has waxen dull, and welted; and the blossoming eyebright that is for a hem to the little white coat of thee is already forgetting how to be bright and blue. What sayest thou then?"
"That I was a queen I knew right well, And sometimes wore a splendour on my head Whose flashing even dead darkness could not quell The like on neck and arms and girdle-stead; And men declared a light my closed eyes shed That killed the diamond in its silver cell." Again I heard the ugly cry of feline pain. Again I looked, but saw neither shape nor motion. Mr.
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