Gebir by Walter Savage Landor
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page 43 of 66 (65%)
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Prayers for protection cannot be profane."
Here the pale sorceress turned her face aside Wildly, and muttered to herself amazed; "I dread her who, alone at such an hour, Can speak so strangely, who can thus combine The words of reason with our gifted rites, Yet will I speak once more.--If thou hast seen The city of Charoba, hast thou marked The steps of Dalica?" "What then?" "The tongue Of Dalica has then our rites divulged." "Whose rites?" "Her sister's, mother's, and her own." "Never." "How sayst thou never? one would think, Presumptuous, thou wert Dalica." "I am, Woman, and who art thou?" With close embrace, Clung the Masarian round her neck, and cried: "Art thou then not my sister? ah, I fear The golden lamps and jewels of a court Deprive thine eyes of strength and purity. O Dalica, mine watch the waning moon, For ever patient in our mother's art, And rest on Heaven suspended, where the founts Of Wisdom rise, where sound the wings of Power; Studies intense of strong and stern delight! And thou too, Dalica, so many years |
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