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The porter with a ghastly fz&t Went ; then return ed with jteadcntous mace , And walVd "behind the loop-holed porch , Lower'd with a leering , houn / lrliLe crouch . Three days , unto that noble ' s shame , At sun-rise and at sun-set flame , I smote the gates , and said the same ! Delora !
Then came some officers of law , With snake-like eyes and lanking jaw , And charg- 'd me to appear in court To answer crimes of fell import . Law spoke : I was condemned , —> and cast For death ; the noble ' s word had past ; And in a jail they held me fast I Delora !
Oft I escaped—as oft again In different provinces was ta ' en ; Till free once more , swift , swift I fly To the green vales of Lombardy , When spent , half famish'd , wan , and gone , I sought one eve a cottage lone And saw my love ! my life ! my own
Delora ! Our breathless cry , our gush of tears—Oh Love 1 ' twas weakness that endears My present thought , if then ' twere shame
To melt my manhood . Words now came , And we recounted all the past ; And though I flurr ' d my sufferance vast , My Dr 6 ft& grew short , thy tears flow'd fast , Delora !
When I was borne across the deep , The snake o ' er innocence did creep And held Delora in his walls . But she fell sick amid his thralls , And constant madness feigned , until Watching a time , she fled his will , And with her father ' scaped from ill ; Delora !
? f Tell \ Am , ± udteu Como waits !'* Certainly , as the sun riseth and setteth , the injured t > a * sion upliftetb its lofty Memnonian roice .
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