The Ballade of Mary Magdalene And Other Poems of George Baxter
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* * * THINK ON IT, CREON! THROUGHOUT ALL MY DAYS MY PRIDE SHALL NOT AGAIN KNOW SUCH A FALL TO HEAR GREECE RINGING WITH A BUTCHER S PRAISE, WHILE I, HER POET, STOOD UNMARKED BY ALL! AYE, EVEN BY LAIS! THE STORIES OF THE DARING DEEDS OF OUR VICTORIOUS GREEK HAD TOUCHED HER FANCY AND HAD WON HER LOVE ERE SHE HAD SEEN HIM, OR HAD HEARD HIM SPEAK! 29 LAIS AND NOTING THIS I SILENTLY WITHDREW AND LET THEM HAVE THEIR WAY. TWAS BETTER SO; BESIDES, FORSOOTH, THERE WAS NAUGHT ELSE TO DO FOR LOVE GROWN COL...D IS COLD AS UNSUNNED SNOW. THEN I, TOO, HAD GROWN TIRED. NAY DO NOT SMILE! TO DOUBT MY WORD WOULD DO ME GRIEVOUS WRONG. THE HOTTEST FIRE DIES IN A LITTLE WHILE, AND ONE GROWS WEARY OF THE SWEETEST SONG. SO THUS I LEFT HER WITH HER LATEST LOVE THIS DIOMED A RUDE, BLOODTHIRSTY KNAVE, WHO LITTLE RECKS SHE HOLDS HIM BUT TO PROVE HOW ATHEN S HERO CAN BE MADE HER SLAVE. * * * * JEALOUS OF DIOMED, THOU SAYEST? NOT SO THOU RT WRONG, GOOD FRIEND, - THAT SIGH WAS NOT FOR HER BUT FOR DEAD LOVE. CREON, I D HAVE YOU KNOW I AM BOTH POET AND PHILOSOPHER.
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