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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 269 FIORANTE; OR, THE BRIDAL EVE. In Florence, that sweet gem of Italy, Dwelt a young maiden past description fair; Her figure tall and graceful, and her eye Was bright and azure as the skies are there: In short, her beauty was so wondrous rare, She was a marvel to all passers by! Her name was Fiorante, ?rich and good: The Count Eigondi was her lover; he (So it was rumoured in the neighbourhood) Was on the brink of his felicity. He truly loved her, ?to idolatry, And her fond ear to early marriage woo'd. Hast thou e'er loved, my Fiorante dear? Am I not thine (said she) by every vow? Hast thou e'er loved another ? and a fear Stole on her as she answer'd, ?Not till now. He pressed his lips upon her blushing brow, And clasped her to his heart more fond and near ! I made a vow in early youth, he said, And knit myself by every solemn oath, That I would scorn to wed the fairest maid, Had she been ever bound by lover's troth; And this resolve has strengthened with my growth. Right blest am I that all my fear has fled ! And then he kissed her fair and gem-wreathed brow, Bidding adieu with many a lingering word. The Lady Fiorante ne'er till now Those accents sweet with so much sadness heard: Those tones, whose music she to all preferred, Fell on her ear like to a broken vow! For though no passion in her heart had dwelt, Yet she had listened to a lover's suit: Long at her feet and lowly had he knelt, Pleading with crafty looks and words astute; Now warmly loud?now eloquently mute, Nor vainly?though no love the maiden felt. And she had promised to become a bride, And yielded up her troth?though not her heart: And now Eegondi just had left her side, She felt 'twas wrong to let him thus d...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459078543
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459078543
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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