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Forsooth she wondered that the stark and gruff old man was so changed to her in little space; for nought she knew as yet how the sight of her cast a hot gleed of love into the hearts of them who beheld her. Now Birdalone arose; but the castellan knelt at her feet, and kissed her hand again, and again, and yet again. Then he said: Thou art gracious indeed.
And further I thought that the Statues, Images and Walls could goe, and the Oxen and other brute beasts could speake and tell strange newes, and that immediately I should see and heare some Oracles from the heavens, and from the gleed of the Sun.
Their love grows and increases continually; but the one feels shame before the other; and each conceals and hides this love so that neither flame nor smoke is seen from the gleed beneath the ashes. But the heat is none the less for that; rather the heat lasts longer below the gleed than above it.
The epilogue I give in his own words: "'Twar a mornin' jest five months ago she had promised to meet me here an' I war seated on yonder log waitin' for her. Jest then some Injuns war comin' through the gleed. That girl ye saw war one o' 'em. She had a nice bullet-pouch to sell, an' I bought it. The girl would insist on puttin' it on; an' while she war doin' so, I war fool enough to gie her a kiss.
Some devil hed put it in my head. Jest at that minnit, who shed come right into the gleed but Marian herself!
The process of disenchanting Tam Lin, in the ballad of that name, was for his lady-love to take him in her arms and hold him, notwithstanding his transformation into a snake, a bear, a lion, a red-hot iron, and lastly into a "burning gleed," when he was to be immediately flung into a well. We have already seen that the task is sometimes to carry the maiden to a churchyard.
It was simply to say, that I "might shortly expect a better road we were approaching a `gleed; beyont that the trace war wider, an' we might ride thegither again." We were just entering the glade, as he finished speaking an opening in the woods of limited extent. The contrast between it and the dark forest-path we had traversed was striking as the change itself was pleasant.
Now, there is a thing I fain wad ken, in the way of philosophical inquiry Did you ever hear of the umquhile Lady Huntinglen, the departed Countess of this noble earl, ganging a wee bit gleed in her walk through the world; I mean in the way of slipping a foot, casting a leglin-girth, or the like, ye understand me?" Allan Ramsay applies the phrase in the same metaphorical sense.
I have no business to make suggestions when a general's present." Mr. Parker sighed and did not return to the subject. After dinner Sam was introduced to Canon Gleed, another missionary, who seemed to be on very good terms with himself, and stood rubbing his hands with a benignant smile. "These are great days, Colonel Jinks," he said. "Great days, indeed, for foreign missions. What would St.
And scents and sounds in the morning-tide * Of birds and zephyrs in fragrance vie; But I think of one, of an absent friend, * And tears rail like rain from a showery sky; And the flamy tongues in my breast uprise * As sparks from gleed that in dark air fly. Allah deign vouchsafe to a lover distraught * Someday the face of his dear to descry!
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