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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512844" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad Of The Dark Ladie. A Fragment.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath yon birch with silver bark,<br>And boughs so pendulous and fair,<br>The brook falls scatter'd down the rock:<br>And all is mossy there!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there upon the moss she sits,<br>The Dark Ladie in silent pain;<br>The heavy tear is in her eye,<br>And drops and swells again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three times she sends her little page<br>Up the castled mountain's breast,<br>If he might find the Knight that wears<br>The Griffin for his crest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun was sloping down the sky,<br>And she had linger'd there all day,<br>Counting moments, dreaming fears--<br>Oh wherefore can he stay?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She hears a rustling o'er the brook,<br>She sees far off a swinging bough!<br>''Tis He! 'Tis my betrothed Knight!<br>Lord Falkland, it is Thou!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She springs, she clasps him round the neck,<br>She sobs a thousand hopes and fears,<br>Her kisses glowing on his cheeks<br>She quenches with her tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My friends with rude ungentle words<br>They scoff and bid me fly to thee!<br>O give me shelter in thy breast!<br>O shield and shelter me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My Henry, I have given thee much,<br>I gave what I can ne'er recall,<br>I gave my heart, I gave my peace,<br>O Heaven! I gave thee all.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Knight made answer to the Maid,<br>While to his heart he held her hand,<br>'Nine castles hath my noble sire,<br>None statelier in the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The fairest one shall be my love's,<br>The fairest castle of the nine!<br>Wait only till the stars peep out,<br>The fairest shall be thine:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Wait only till the hand of eve<br>Hath wholly closed yon western bars,<br>And through the dark we two will steal<br>Beneath the twinkling stars!'--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The dark? the dark? No! not the dark?<br>The twinkling stars? How, Henry? How?<br>O God! 'twas in the eye of noon<br>He pledged his sacred vow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And in the eye of noon my love<br>Shall lead me from my mother's door,<br>Sweet boys and girls all clothed in white<br>Strewing flowers before:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But first the nodding minstrels go<br>With music meet for lordly bowers,<br>The children next in snow-white vests,<br>Strewing buds and flowers!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And then my love and I shall pace,<br>My jet black hair in pearly braids,<br>Between our comely bachelors<br>And blushing bridal maids.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a><div class=q>
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And boughs so pendulous and fair,
The brook falls scatter'd down the rock:
And all is mossy there!

And there upon the moss she sits,
The Dark Ladie in silent pain;
The heavy tear is in her eye,
And drops and sw..."></div>
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