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THE CURSE OF KEHAMA.
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And when those tears her sight beguil’d,And still her faultering accents fail’d,The Spirit, mute and motionless,Spread out her arms for the caress,Made still and silent with excessOf love and painful happiness.
The Maid that lovely form survey’d;Wistful she gaz’d, and knew her not;But Nature to her heart convey’dA sudden thrill, a startling thought,A feeling many a year forgot,Now like a dream anew recurring,As if again in every veinHer mother’s milk was stirring.With straining neck and earnest eyeShe stretch’d her hands imploringly,As if she fain would have her nigh,Yet fear’d to meet the wish’d embrace,At once with love and awe opprest,Not so, Ladurlad; he could trace,Though brighten’d with angelic grace,His own Yedillian’s earthly face;
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