Biermann, Georg, 1880-1949, Cox, Francis F · London : Siegle, Hill & co. · leaf 68
too easily scared, foundreason enough and to spare to reflect on the avengingHereafter which awaited an age that dawned amid vice,want, and the peril of death. Never had Golgotha, theghastly place of skulls, loomed so large or so close in theeyes of men as during those days in which the… … THE TRECENTO 35 divine, was it indeed swallowed up in Death ? Alas, buteven now had Paolo—the beauteous, golden-hairedPaolo—tasted bliss upon the lips of his Francesca, andfearfully had the chastising hand of God avenged thatadulterous kiss. The tears were not yet dry thatbedewed the memory of the…
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