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LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE INTIMIDATOR by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS

First Line: BESIDE A FOUNTAIN'S SPURTING TRUMPETER
Last Line: AND BADE THEM BROIDER AT HER WINDING-SHEET.
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE; DEAD, THE;

Beside a fountain's spurting trumpeter
A large white-throated lady lean'd and flung
Her long-sleeved arms above her dulcimer,
And quick the glib notes ran along her tongue,
Like rose and fruit. "@3Ah bitter love!@1" she sung;
Then lustily: "@3Sweet Death, the comforter!@1"
It chanced that Love, the garden slopes among,
Came like the palmer, Death, and look'd at her.

The lady swoon'd amid her stiff brocades,
And wept amain, though Love laugh'd low and sweet.
She call'd on Love, but Love with rapid feet
Pass'd out amid the sombre laurel-shades,
Unto the chamber of her nooning maids,
And bade them broider at her winding-sheet.



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