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Updated: June 8, 2025
Nor could she put aside the comparisons that naturally came from this effort of her power. To sing holily and loftily, to sing in "... Strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death" How dear to heaven and earth such saintly melody! How different from the "Midnight song and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity" that had once appeared an elysium of musical ravishment to her.
Believe me, madam, these are not the professions of idle gallantry I speak the genuine, though imperfect, language of my heart. Words, even the most pathetic, cannot do justice to my love. I gaze upon your beauty with ravishment; but I contemplate the graces of your soul with such awful veneration, that I tremble while I approach you, as if my vows were addressed to some superior being."
He gazed and gazed, overwhelmed by the amazement of his own bliss, he could have gazed upon her so in speechless ravishment for hours, when, with a gesture of infinite grace and appeal, she stretched out her hands toward him: "Speak to me, dearest one!" she murmured wistfully "Tell me, am I welcome?" "O exquisite humility! O beautiful maiden-timid hesitation!
Is it not that the sacred inheritance of all, which has tyrannously and impiously been ravished from the many for the benefit of the few, and which ravishment, from long custom of iniquity and inculcation of false precepts, has too long been basely submitted to?
Every day some new ravishment of the beautiful city was wrought, new victims buried under ruins, new terror and destruction, until the whole region was in panic and dismay.
The compact, symmetrical combination of gifts and acquirements, of genius with talent, demanded for the putting forth of a fresh, priceless poem, this he need not have; but his perceptions must be brightened by the light whose fountain is the inward enjoyment of the more perfect in form, deed, and sentiment, and his best thoughts suffused with that fragrance whose only source is the ravishment of the beautiful.
Yet there is nothing I would not do to regain the ravishment of the past when the sight of the sunset across the hills, or the moon's silver transfiguration of the sea filled me with deep and indescribable ecstasy when the thought of Love, like a full chord struck from a magic harp, set my pulses throbbing with delirious delight fancies thick as leaves in summer crowded my brain Earth was a round charm hung on the breast of a smiling Divinity men were gods women were angels' the world seemed but a wide scroll for the signatures of poets, and mine, I swore, should be clearly written!"
But having thus spoken, Manuel turned and went on once more, and faithfully, in a mental ravishment which to himself was inexplicable, the venerable Felix followed. And presently they came to the plain and uncomely wooden edifice where Aubrey Leigh and his bride had plighted their vows that morning.
Then he glided into a song of love, and tenderly, pleadingly, passionately, told the story as only a courting bird can tell it. Then he sang a song of ravishment; a song quavering with fear and the pain tugging at his heart. He almost had run the gamut, and she really appeared as if she intended to flee rather than to come to him. He was afraid to take even one timid little hop toward her.
We have heard a great deal about the "development" of Mexico. Exploitation is the word that ought instead to be used. When its rich natural resources are exploited for the increase of the private fortunes of foreign capitalists, that is not development, it is ravishment. You can never develop Mexico until you develop the Mexican.
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