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As when a murderer sees the ghost Of one thro * life he'd injured most , After long years rise in his path , Dilated witn immortal wrath } ' * So look'd he ; and his jewel'd sword Hung like a by-word 1 Thus 6 ' eraW * d , He rock'd , tho' rooted to the sward ! Delora !
" Lo ! I , the man who smote thy gates , Still live!—Andrea Como waits ! Not twice ten years of wrongs # qA paxtm Have wrought my fall : Shame eat thy chains As dust that fell from me ; and now We two grey men must titles show I Hark !—Retribution !—I , or thou 1 " Delora !
Aghast , he reel'd ; yet fei g ning proud , With dubious accent cried aloud , — " I stole her not—poor wretch forbear I " I seized the poor wretch by the hair , And to a torrent ' s dizzy verge With many a gasp and wrench did urge , And held him o ' er the boiling surge ! Delora !
" Thou worm at Nature s footstool t—thou Unworthy # h * pe of man \— -what blow Cafc tinit mg £ wrongs ?"—I loos ed his form , Attd < aHo 6 &A&b grey hairs from my palm : ^ V ^^^ t ^ l ^ . ^ ca ^ ract ' ^ ig mg cr <) wn My fia ** could rwing thee howling down , G ^ H ;^ a > i 4 <> ttl& ttV the wood-born clown I " Delora !
Yea , my deep injuries , sustain'd « From y outh to age—life wasted * waned- — Mortal revenge could never quit .- ;¦ Poor—feminine—inadequate . ^ , >; , ^ , rif ; , Placed ' neath my heel , this lor 4 JwJ tfltfn ^ M y soul ' s immeasurable scorn , - T ., Which too much honoured such a pawn ; Delora I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 729, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/13/
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