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Updated: May 29, 2025
It was bordered about with cocoa plums and sweet-smelling myrtle, on one of which flourished an orchid, the vanilla bean, which made heavy with its fragrance the whole camping site. "But there lurked a taint in the clime so blest, Like a serpent coiled in a ring-dove's nest"
"Rolfe," said he, sorrowfully, "there is a ring-dove's nest on that tree: she and hers have built there in peace and safety for a hundred years, and cooed about the place. My unhappy boy was climbing the tree to take the young, after solemnly promising me he never would: that is the bitter truth. What shall I do with the young barbarian?" He sighed, and Lady Bassett echoed the sigh.
Whether she would find prose or verse the most natural mode of expression I cannot say, but I know she is passionately fond of poetry, and I should not be surprised if, laid away among the pressed pansies and roses of past summers, there were poems, songs, perhaps, of her own, which she sings to herself with her fingers touching the piano; for to that she tells her secrets in tones sweet as the ring-dove's call to her mate.
Whether she would find prose or verse the most natural mode of expression I cannot say, but I know she is passionately fond of poetry, and I should not be surprised if, laid away among the pressed pansies and roses of past summers, there were poems, songs, perhaps, of her own, which she sings to herself with her fingers touching the piano; for to that she tells her secrets in tones sweet as the ring-dove's call to her mate.
And they turned from the clerk's door, Sue taking his arm and murmuring as they walked on homeward: Can you keep the bee from ranging, Or the ring-dove's neck from changing? No! Nor fetter'd love ... They thought it over, or postponed thinking. Certainly they postponed action, and seemed to live on in a dreamy paradise.
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