Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 292
E KING AND THE ROSE. 277 Who knoweth, she said, no pitying grace,Shall find this wood an enchanted place,Fatal to him and to all his race! Then a terror settled upon them there,-On Herluin brave and bold Guilbert,Robert the Flame-brand, and Taillefer. Then the King laughed loud: Yet I d ven-ture… … PRAY YOU, GO BACK AS YOU CAME! SHE SAID. Scarce had they trembled the boast to hear.When his brave horse shuddered, and stopped for fearOf the cry which smote on his startled ear, Sweet and shrill as a troubled bird,Chilling the hearts of those that heard,; Back — oh, back ! came its warning word.…
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