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As he looked and saw the whole Hellespont covered with the vessels of his fleet, and all the shore and every plain about Abydos as full as could be of men, Xerxes congratulated himself on his good-fortune; but, after a little while, he wept. Then thou didst congratulate thyself, and now, behold! thou weepest.
With speed arose she from the grey sea, like a mist, and sate her before the face of her weeping son, and stroked him with her hand, and spake and called on his name: "My child, why weepest thou? What sorrow hath entered into they heart? Speak it forth, hide it not in thy mind, that both may know it."
Had Rachel's spirit been of weaker fiber the Egyptian's own forceful individuality would have longed to sustain it, but when it broke in its strength she knew that here was a stress of emotion too deep for her to soothe. "Then if he is not dead," she said, searching for something to say, "why weepest thou?" "Alas! seest thou not, Masanath?
This, O most musical of rivers, is thy second sorrow, this, Meles, thy new woe. Of old didst thou lose Homer, that sweet mouth of Calliope, and men say thou didst bewail thy goodly son with streams of many tears, and didst fill all the salt sea with the voice of thy lamentation now again another son thou weepest, and in a new sorrow art thou wasting away.
Ye are not far separated by ungenial years, and might glide to a common grave hand in hand; but I, older in heart than in age, am yet so far thine elder in the last, that these hairs will be gray, and this form bent, while thy beauty is in its prime, and but thou weepest!" "I weep that thou shouldst bring one thought of time to sadden my thoughts, which are of eternity.
She then raised her head, looked around, and perceived a tall figure, clothed in white, standing at about ten paces from the sepulchre on the east side of the garden, where there was a slight rise in the direction of the town; the figure was partly hidden from her sight by a palm-tree, but she was somewhat startled when it addressed her in these words: 'Woman, why weepest thou?
But Hugh kissed her and said: Birdalone, my dear, why weepest thou? Didst thou not hear my word, that thy people should be my people, and thy land my land, and that whither thou goest I will go? Dost thou not trow me then? Or how deemest thou I may tear thy friend Viridis from thee, when she hath just found thee? But tell me, hast thou in thy mind any dwelling-place other than this?
A vast chasm have my steps overleapt since we met, O Hilda sweet Edith; a vast chasm, but a narrow grave." His voice faltered a moment, and again he renewed, " Thou weepest, Edith; ah, how thy tears console me! Hilda, hear me! I love thy grandchild loved her by irresistible instinct since her blue eyes first smiled on mine.
As he wept Swanhild came to him, for she had seen him from afar, and touched him gently on the arm. "Why weepest thou, Eric?" she said. "I weep for the dead, Swanhild," he answered. "Weep not for the dead they are at peace; if thou must weep, weep for the living. Nay, weep not at all; rejoice rather that thou art here to mourn.
Again the question by this man, "Why weepest thou?" How strangely they talk, these angels and this gardener! She makes a plea for the body. Then the one word, her name, spoken in that voice she knew so well "Mary." Ah! there's no question about that voice. She needs no explanation nor evidence more than this, as she cries out, "Oh, my beloved Master."
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