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"He told´ her that she´ was the joy´ of his life´. And if´ she'd con-sent´ he would make her his wife´; She could´ not refuse´ him; to church´ so they went´, Young Will was forgot´, and young Sue´ was content´; And then´ was she kiss'd´ and set down´ on his knee´, No man´ in the world´ was so lov´-ing as he´!" Mrs. Yeobright burst in from the outer room.
I wonder'd what my sleepless nights, my waking eternal thoughts, and slumbering visions of my lovely brother meant: I wonder'd why my soul was continually fill'd with wishes and new desires; and still concluded 'twas for my sister all, 'till I discover'd the cheat by jealousy; for when my sister hung upon your neck, kiss'd, and caress'd that face that I ador'd, oh how I found my colour change, my limbs all trembled, and my blood enrag'd, and I could scarce forbear reproaching you; or crying out, 'Oh why this fondness, brother?
Was Handsomer than ever I did See her, many thinking her Handsomer than the Bride. Had a great Following, the which the Hussy treat'd with Disdain. "'Have you Kiss'd the Bride, Sir? says shee, a-mocking of me after her Wont. 'What a Fine Thing is a Love-Match, Master Freeman! "'Have you Wish'd the Bridegroom Joy? says I. The woman anger'd me.
Young spirits of the Spring sweet breeze Came thronging round me, soft and coy, Light wood-nymphs sported in the trees, And laughing Echo leapt for joy! Brooding Woe and writhing Pain Soften'd at my gentle strain; Bounding Joy, with footstep fleet, Ran to nestle at my feet; While, aroused, delighted Love Softly kiss'd me from above!
Do you so? said he, wiping his eyes with his handkerchief then well may I. In saying this, he drew a little ring out of his bosom, which seemed tied with a black ribband about his neck, and kiss'd it twice Here, Billy, said he, the boy flew across the room to the bed-side, and falling down upon his knee, took the ring in his hand, and kissed it too, then kissed his father, and sat down upon the bed and wept.
"'I restore, says my master, 'the garment I've worn, And I claim of the Princess to don it in turn; For its stains and its rents she should prize it the more, Since by shame 'tis unsullied, though crimson'd with gore." Then deep blush'd the Princess yet kiss'd she and press'd The blood-spotted robes to her lips and her breast.
"At twelve precisely my coach was at the door, which was no sooner told me than I kiss'd my children round, and went into it with some little resolution.
Their Bodies bath'd in purple Blood, They bore with them away; They kiss'd them dead a thousand Times, When they were clad in Clay. Thus we see how the Thoughts of this Poem, which naturally arise from the Subject, are always simple, and sometimes exquisitely noble; that the Language is often very sounding, and that the whole is written with a true poetical Spirit.
I will not go to Brussels, replied I, interrupting myself. But my imagination went on, I recalled her looks at that crisis of our separation, when neither of us had power to say adieu! I look'd at the picture she had tied in a black riband about my neck, and blush'd as I look'd at it. I would have given the world to have kiss'd it, but was ashamed.
That very night, while gentle sleep The people's eyelids kiss'd, Two stern-faced men set out from Lynn, Through the cold and heavy mist; And Eugene Aram walk'd between, With gyves upon his wrist. Slowly the memorable June day had drawn to a close, and now darkness had set in and the moon shone brightly down upon the old detachment of Davidsburg.
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