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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: II CORMAC TO STANGERD HE SEES HER FEET O EYE-DECEIT or heart-deceit, Lo there, my blessing or my bane A lover at a lady's feet Holding his heart, and there a pain A lady's feet, and there a lover: A patch of snow left by the rain Afield, or two tufts of white clover . . . And near beside a young man slain. II HE SEES HER EYES The fire plays with my lady's eyes, And they make music in my head. The sea-blue bird that flashing flies Like a sword down the river-bed Links the green earth and azure skies; And so with me is Stangerd wed, When light with light is handfasted. b chapter{Section 4III SHE LIES AND LISTENS Now Stangerd lay abed within The house's inmost sanctuaries, With both her hands between her knees, And them drawn up towards her chin Touching the fulness of her breast; And her wide eyes could get no rest That sought the dark and saw clouds float, Clouds of crimson radiant mist Which gather'd, mass'd and cours'd above her More lovely than the wings of the West. If such wild heart should turn to love her, What love-words would not such a throat Pour for the overwhelming of her THE WORTH OF HER For all that body's loveliness I would give Iceland and no less, And all the lands that lie between The land where the sun is never seen And the roaring Western main; And even so I should be fain To search the world for more to give: Yet search I must if I would live. chapter{Section 5v HIS PHILOSOPHY I love a lovely woman?well, And if some other love her?good All goes to prove my hardihood, All goes her magicry to tell. For say she is a miracle, Say that her beauty is my food, Am I so surly in my mood That what feeds me rings t'other's knell ? Nay, should a hundred be about her,...