A MEDLEY.
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The dip of certain strata to the North.
Would we go with her? we should find the land
Worth seeing; and the river made a fall
Out yonder: 'then she pointed on to where
A double hill ran up his dark-blue forks
Beyond the full-leaved platans of the vale.
Would we go with her? we should find the land
Worth seeing; and the river made a fall
Out yonder: 'then she pointed on to where
A double hill ran up his dark-blue forks
Beyond the full-leaved platans of the vale.
Agreed to, this, the day fled on thro' all
Its range of duties to the appointed hour.
Then summon'd to the porch we went. She stood
Among her maidens, higher by the head,
Her back against a pillar, her foot on one
Of those tame leopards, Kittenlike he roll'd
And paw'd about her sandal. I drew near:
My heart beat thick with passion and with awe,
And from my breast the involuntary sigh
Brake, as she smote me with the light of eyes
That lent my knee desire to kneel, and shook
My pulses, till to horse we clomb, and so
Went forth in long retinue following up
Its range of duties to the appointed hour.
Then summon'd to the porch we went. She stood
Among her maidens, higher by the head,
Her back against a pillar, her foot on one
Of those tame leopards, Kittenlike he roll'd
And paw'd about her sandal. I drew near:
My heart beat thick with passion and with awe,
And from my breast the involuntary sigh
Brake, as she smote me with the light of eyes
That lent my knee desire to kneel, and shook
My pulses, till to horse we clomb, and so
Went forth in long retinue following up
