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"Still thine offence, Jew," said the stern voice of the Conqueror, "is a damnable one, and lendest itself readily to the purposes of crime. "Let the unbeliever be removed in custody. "My lord of Canterbury, he is a heretic perchance a sorcerer; let the Church see to him." And so the poor Jew was removed to his dungeon.
"If thou comest near me," said the actress whirling the chopper, "I'll chop thy ugly little head off." "Unless thou lendest me thy lips thou shalt not play in my comedy," said Pinchas angrily. "My trouble!" said the leading lady, shrugging her shoulders.
Beneath the dark blue line Of western distance that sublime descendest, And, gleaming lovelier as thy beams decline, Thy million hues to every vapor lendest, And over cobweb, lawn, and grove, and stream Sheddest the liquid magic of thy light, Till calm Earth, with the parting splendor bright, Shows like the vision of a beauteous dream; What gazer now with astronomic eye Could coldly count the spots within thy sphere?
Ah! cease, too vent'rous, cease to dare; In thine, our dearer safety spare. From him, ye cruel falcons stray; And turn, ye fowlers, far away, All-giving Pow'r, great source of life, Oh! hear the parent, hear the wife: That life thou lendest from above, Though little, make it large in love.
If thou art one who tradeth in both ways: God's now, the devil's then; or if delays Thou mak'st of coming to thy God for life; Or if thy light and lusts are at a strife About who should be master of thy soul, And lovest one, the other dost control; These prophets tell thee can which way thou bendest, On which thou frown'st, to which a hand thou lendest.
He who would lend them must first earn them with long and patient toil; and he who would borrow " "Waits at thy elbow." "Should have a name and countenance well known on the Rialto." "Thou lendest on sufficient pledges to masks, careful Hosea, or fame belies thy generosity." "A sufficient pledge gives me power to see the way clearly, though the borrower should be as much hidden as those up above.
If thou art one who tradeth in both ways, God's now, the devil's then; or if delays Thou mak'st of coming to thy God for life; Or if thy light, and lusts are at a strife About who should be master of thy soul, And lovest one, the other dost control; These prophets tell thee can, which way thou bendest, On which thou frown'st, to which a hand thou lendest.
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