Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 46
be, with doubt and anxious fear. i885.] BATH MEN DI. 5 Is Tai living ? Is he poor ? At any rate, we knowBathmendi he cannot have found, because he would not goIn search of him. Cried Sadder, then: Dear brothers, list to me.Long hours I pondered in the years of my adversity.That being, called… … Of such a being heard, t is plain the treachrous Alzim lied ;The falsehood served its purpose well his cruelty to hide.Bathmendi is an empty dream, a name the world to cheat,To ruin, luring all mankind by vain illusions sweet. While yet he spoke, a robber band sprang from behind the trees ; With…
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