The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
page 64 of 249 (25%)
page 64 of 249 (25%)
![]() | ![]() |
|
Of marriage vows?
Eliz. I know it--so speak not of them. Oh! that's the flow, the chasm in all my longings, Which I have spanned with cobweb arguments, Yet yawns before me still, where'er I turn, To bar me from perfection; had I given My virgin all to Christ! I was not worthy! I could not stand alone! Guta. Here comes your husband. Eliz. He comes! my sun! and every thrilling vein Proclaims my weakness. [Lewis enters.] Lewis. Good news, my Princess; in the street below Conrad, the man of God from Marpurg, stands And from a bourne-stone to the simple folk Does thunder doctrine, preaching faith, repentance, And dread of all foul heresies; his eyes On heaven still set, save when with searching frown He lours upon the crowd, who round him cower Like quails beneath the hawk, and gape, and tremble, Now raised to heaven, now down again to hell. I stood beside and heard; like any doe's My heart did rise and fall. Eliz. Oh, let us hear him! |
|