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ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came	A
Who in Athens lived but hoped that he	B
From a certain townsman there might claim	A
As his father's friend kind courtesy	B
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Son and daughter they	C
Had been wont to say	C
Should thereafter bride and bridegroom be	B
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But can he that boon so highly prized	D
Save tis dearly bought now hope to get	E
They are Christians and have been baptized	D
He and all of his are heathens yet	E
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For a newborn creed	F
Like some loathsome weed	F
Love and truth to root out oft will threat	E
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Father daughter all had gone to rest	G
And the mother only watches late	H
She receives with courtesy the guest	G
And conducts him to the room of state	H
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Wine and food are brought	I
Ere by him besought	I
Bidding him good night she leaves him straight	I
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But he feels no relish now in truth	J
For the dainties so profusely spread	I
Meat and drink forgets the wearied youth	J
And still dress'd he lays him on the bed	I
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Scarce are closed his eyes	K
When a form in hies	K
Through the open door with silent tread	I
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By his glimmering lamp discerns he now	L
How in veil and garment white array'd	I
With a black and gold band round her brow	L
Glides into the room a bashful maid	I
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But she at his sight	I
Lifts her hand so white	I
And appears as though full sore afraid	I
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Am I cries she such a stranger here	M
That the guest's approach they could not name	A
Ah they keep me in my cloister drear	M
Well nigh feel I vanquish'd by my shame	A
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On thy soft couch now	L
Slumber calmly thou	L
I'll return as swiftly as I came	A
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Stay thou fairest maiden cries the boy	N
Starting from his couch with eager haste	I
Here are Ceres' Bacchus' gifts of joy	N
Amor bringest thou with beauty grac'd	I
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Thou art pale with fear	M
Loved one let us here	M
Prove the raptures the Immortals taste	I
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Draw not nigh O Youth afar remain	O
Rapture now can never smile on me	B
For the fatal step alas is ta'en	P
Through my mother's sick bed phantasy	K
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Cured she made this oath	Q
'Youth and nature both	Q
Shall henceforth to Heav'n devoted be '	-
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From the house so silent now are driven	R
All the gods who reign'd supreme of yore	M
One Invisible now rules in heaven	R
On the cross a Saviour they adore	M
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Victims slay they here	M
Neither lamb nor steer	M
But the altars reek with human gore	M
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And he lists and ev'ry word he weighs	K
While his eager soul drinks in each sound	I
Can it be that now before my gaze	K
Stands my loved one on this silent ground	I
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Pledge to me thy troth	Q
Through our father's oath	Q
With Heav'ns blessing will our love be crown'd	I
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Kindly youth I never can be thine	S
'Tis my sister they intend for thee	B
When I in the silent cloister pine	S
Ah within her arms remember me	B
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Thee alone I love	T
While love's pangs I prove	U
Soon the earth will veil my misery	B
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No for by this glowing flame I swear	M
Hymen hath himself propitious shown	V
Let us to my fathers house repair	M
And thoult find that joy is not yet flown	V
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Sweetest here then stay	I
And without delay	I
Hold we now our wedding feast alone	V
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Then exchange they tokens of their truth	J
She gives him a golden chain to wear	M
And a silver chalice would the youth	J
Give her in return of beauty rare	M
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That is not for me	B
Yet I beg of thee	B
One lock only give me of thy hair	M
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Now the ghostly hour of midnight knell'd	I
And she seem'd right joyous at the sign	S
To her pallid lips the cup she held	I
But she drank of nought but blood red wine	S
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For to taste the bread	I
There before them spread	I
Nought he spoke could make the maid incline	S
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To the youth the goblet then she brought	I
He too quaff'd with eager joy the bowl	W
Love to crown the silent feast he sought	I
Ah full love sick was the stripling's soul	W
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From his prayer she shrinks	K
Till at length he sinks	K
On the bed and weeps without control	W
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And she comes and lays her near the boy	N
How I grieve to see thee sorrowing so	K
If thou think'st to clasp my form with joy	N
Thou must learn this secret sad to know	K
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Yes the maid whom thou	L
Call'st thy loved one now	L
Is as cold as ice though white as snow	K
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Then he clasps her madly in his arm	X
While love's youthful might pervades his frame	A
Thou might'st hope when with me to grow warm	Y
E'en if from the grave thy spirit came	A
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Breath for breath and kiss	K
Overflow of bliss	K
Dost not thou like me feel passion's flame	A
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Love still closer rivets now their lips	K
Tears they mingle with their rapture blest	I
From his mouth the flame she wildly sips	K
Each is with the other's thought possess'd	I
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His hot ardour's flood	I
Warms her chilly blood	I
But no heart is beating in her breast	I
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In her care to see that nought went wrong	Z
Now the mother happen'd to draw near	M
At the door long hearkens she full long	Z
Wond'ring at the sounds that greet her ear	M
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Tones of joy and sadness	K
And love's blissful madness	K
As of bride and bridegroom they appear	M
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From the door she will not now remove	U
'Till she gains full certainty of this	K
And with anger hears she vows of love	T
Soft caressing words of mutual bliss	K
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Hush the cock's loud strain	O
But thoult come again	P
When the night returns then kiss on kiss	K
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Then her wrath the mother cannot hold	I
But unfastens straight the lock with ease	K
In this house are girls become so bold	I
As to seek e'en strangers' lusts to please	K
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By her lamp's clear glow	K
Looks she in and oh	K
Sight of horror 'tis her child she sees	K
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Fain the youth would in his first alarm	X
With the veil that o'er her had been spread	I
With the carpet shield his love from harm	X
But she casts them from her void of dread	I
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And with spirit's strength	A2
In its spectre length	A2
Lifts her figure slowly from the bed	I
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Mother mother Thus her wan lips say	I
May not I one night of rapture share	M
From the warm couch am I chased away	I
Do I waken only to despair	M
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It contents not thee	B
To have driven me	B
An untimely shroud of death to wear	M
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But from out my coffin's prison bounds	K
By a wond'rous fate I'm forced to rove	B2
While the blessings and the chaunting sounds	K
That your priests delight in useless prove	U
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Water salt are vain	O
Fervent youth to chain	O
Ah e'en Earth can never cool down love	T
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When that infant vow of love was spoken	R
Venus' radiant temple smiled on both	Q
Mother thou that promise since hast broken	R
Fetter'd by a strange deceitful oath	Q
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Gods though hearken ne'er	M
Should a mother swear	M
To deny her daughter's plighted troth	Q
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From my grave to wander I am forc'd	I
Still to seek The Good's long sever'd link	C2
Still to love the bridegroom I have lost	I
And the life blood of his heart to drink	C2
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When his race is run	R
I must hasten on	D2
And the young must 'neath my vengeance sink	C2
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Beauteous youth no longer mayst thou live	E2
Here must shrivel up thy form so fair	M
Did not I to thee a token give	F2
Taking in return this lock of hair	M
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View it to thy sorrow	K
Grey thoult be to morrow	K
Only to grow brown again when there	M
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Mother to this final prayer give ear	M
Let a funeral pile be straightway dress'd	I
Open then my cell so sad and drear	M
That the flames may give the lovers rest	I
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When ascends the fire	M
From the glowing pyre	M
To the gods of old we'll hasten blest	I