Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 264
h yearning he had marked it oft,And now — temptation was too great:He grasped — oh, awful to relate,Regardless of his future fate,Deliberately he squeezed it! Within the hall the feast was spread,The guests filed in, by Nepthah led, Her ladies, coming up in rows,Held lotus-blossoms to her… … the wanderer, seated piteousupon a chill sarcophagus. The view was more than pleasing,When on the air, so calm but now,There rose a shrill and dreadful Miaow !That drove the color from each brow, Their blood with horror freezing. Too well that anguished wail they knew!Prince Nepthah from the table…
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