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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 [1849], Mardi and a voyage thither, volume 2 (Harper & Brothers, New York) [word count] [eaf275v2]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
“Ho, now!” cried Media, “across the wide waters, for “There or nowhere, noble Taji,” said Yoomy. “Be not too sanguine, gentle Yoomy,” said Babbalanja. “Does Yillah choose rather to bower in the wild wilderness Sang Yoomy:— Her bower is not of the vine, But the wild, wild eglantine! Not climbing a moldering arch, But upheld by the fir-green larch. Old ruins she flies: To new valleys she hies;— Not the hoar, moss-wood, Ivied trees each a rood— Not in Maramma she dwells, Hollow with hermit cells. 'Tis a new, new isle! An infant's its smile, Soft-rocked by the sea. Its bloom all in bud; No tide at its flood, In that fresh-born sea! Spring! Spring! where she dwells, In her sycamore dells, Where Mardi is young and new: Its verdure all eyes with dew.
There, there! in the bright, balmy morns, The young deer sprout their horns, Deep-tangled in new-branching groves, Where the Red-Rover Robin roves,— Stooping his crest, To his molting breast— Rekindling the flambeau there! Spring! Spring! where she dwells, In her sycamore dells:— Where, fulfilling their fates, All creatures seek mates— The thrush, the doe, and the hare! “Thou art most musical, sweet Yoomy,” said Media.” “My lord, autumn soon merges in winter, but the spring
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 [1849], Mardi and a voyage thither, volume 2 (Harper & Brothers, New York) [word count] [eaf275v2]. |