The book The Lady of the Scarlet Shoes And Other Verses was written by author Alix Egerton Here you can read free online of The Lady of the Scarlet Shoes And Other Verses book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Lady of the Scarlet Shoes And Other Verses a good or bad book?
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How I bewitch all folk who cross my path ; How evil follows where my eyes may fall. Yet it was not so always. Years ago I used to dance the summer days away And sing for all the beauty of the world ; I was a child so innocent and glad. Who knew no wrong, but being beautiful, A great man loved me, or he seemed to love, And I — I yielded to his passion's will. 'Twas thus he drove me, guiltless, down to hell ; 34 THE LEGEND OF ROSIAL Through him I suffered countless torturing hours, Hot shame and ...degradation and despair Like leaden fetters weighing down my heart. He killed my faith, I could not even pray, I feared to sleep, to wake, to live, to die ; I could not rest, but fled a hunted soul Along the days, while ever at my back The Arch-fiend shrieked damnation in my ear : Unclean^ unclean^ unclean. There is no Truthy No Holiness, no Peace, This world is Hell, And I am Lord of all. Then in my agony I cursed the man, And the curse fell in truth on him and his ; His wife died sudden ere three moons a bride.
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