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When Kanmakan heard him speak thus unseemly, after what he had shown him of skill in verse, he knew that he despised him and thought to presume with him; so he answered him with soft and dulcet speech, saying, "O chief of the Arabs, leave my tenderness of age and tell me thy story and why thou wanderest by night in the desert, reciting verses.
"Nay, if that be all thy fear, take with thee this pledge, that Warwick's treason to the House for which my father fell dissolves his power over one driven to disown him as a brother, knowing Earl Salisbury, had he foreseen such disgrace, had disowned him as a son. And if there be defeat and flight and exile, wherever thou wanderest, Hastings, shall Katherine be found beside thee.
When, at rare intervals, some thought visits one, as perchance he is walking on a railroad, then indeed the cars go by without his hearing them. But soon, by some inexorable law, our life goes by and the cars return. "Gentle breeze, that wanderest unseen, And bendest the thistles round Loira of storms, Traveller of the windy glens, Why hast thou left my ear so soon?"
Tell me, therefore, O Naga maid, how I may act so that, while doing thy pleasure, I may not be guilty of any untruth or breach of duty. "Ulupi answered, 'I know, O son of Pandu, why thou wanderest over the earth, and why thou hast been commanded to lead the life of a Brahmacharin by the superior.
Tell me, therefore, O Naga maid, how I may act so that, while doing thy pleasure, I may not be guilty of any untruth or breach of duty. "Ulupi answered, 'I know, O son of Pandu, why thou wanderest over the earth, and why thou hast been commanded to lead the life of a Brahmacharin by the superior.
It is the genius that had made its game of that old love's labour's lost that is at work here still, still bent on making a lore of life and love, still ready to spend its rhetoric on things, and composing its metres with them. Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest. He is building and manning new ships in his triumphant fleet.
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
"There's another verse in that book she liked," said Euphrasia, "but it always was sad to me." Victoria took the book, and read again: "Weary wind, who wanderest Like the world's rejected guest, Hast thou still some secret nest On the tree or billow?" Euphrasia laid the volume tenderly on the shelf, and turned and faced Victoria.
As for what thou sayest of a boy's whiskers and moustaches and how they add to his beauty and grace, by Allah, thou wanderest from the right path and sayest that which is other than the truth; for whiskers change the charms of the comely into ugliness; even as saith the poet: The whiskers, that sprout on the cheek of the wight, His lovers avenge, if he 've done them unright.
"There's another verse in that book she liked," said Euphrasia, "but it always was sad to me." Victoria took the book, and read again: "Weary wind, who wanderest Like the world's rejected guest, Hast thou still some secret nest On the tree or billow?" Euphrasia laid the volume tenderly on the shelf, and turned and faced Victoria.
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