The Waiting Woman
The Waiting Woman
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Her cheeks are soft and her mouth is glad Ride fast !
For the flash of her glance is the light of bane, And the touch of her lips is the key to pain, And she calls to the wise man all in vain ! But youth is strong and will find no wrong In the lilting lure of her ancient song. And the thing that's art, and the thing that's heart, Only the knowing can tell apart ; And the price of the knowledge is black with stain, And the seed of the wisdom, bad.
She would barter her love for your own, my lad- ...Ride past !
16 THE WAITING WOMAN 17 But your love is good and her love is bad Ride fast !
She offers the fruit of the bitter tree, But her kiss is the promise of misery, Of death and of woe ; let her be ! let her be ! But youth is bold and of eager mold, And brass in the ken of youth is gold, And the acid of grief is the only test For the tawdry tinsel within her breast Which only the eyes of the wise can see And the eyes of the wise are sad !
THE SONG OF THE MANY WE broke the yoke of the Aryan kings, And we burst our bonds in Cathay ; We waged good war on the Mid-sea shore, And we conquered the Carthaginian whore; Babylon's walls to the ground we threw, And the millions of Timur, the Tartar, we slew ; Istar and Isis we hurled to doom, And we shrouded foul Nineveh's halls in gloom ; Rome broke her pact and we crumbled her fanes, Forum and Pantheon rust in the rains ; Attila's curs to their kennels we drove, And the skull of the ravaging Vandal we clove ; Down through the ages, from Egypt to Spain Pharaoh the Slaver, and Louis the Vain ; Lust-mad Belshazzar, and Caesar, who dared None who laid hands on our birthright we spared.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Her cheeks are soft and her mouth is glad Ride fast !
For the flash of her glance is the light of bane, And the touch of her lips is the key to pain, And she calls to the wise man all in vain ! But youth is strong and will find no wrong In the lilting lure of her ancient song. And the thing that's art, and the thing that's heart, Only the knowing can tell apart ; And the price of the knowledge is black with stain, And the seed of the wisdom, bad.
She would barter her love for your own, my lad- ...Ride past !
16 THE WAITING WOMAN 17 But your love is good and her love is bad Ride fast !
She offers the fruit of the bitter tree, But her kiss is the promise of misery, Of death and of woe ; let her be ! let her be ! But youth is bold and of eager mold, And brass in the ken of youth is gold, And the acid of grief is the only test For the tawdry tinsel within her breast Which only the eyes of the wise can see And the eyes of the wise are sad !
THE SONG OF THE MANY WE broke the yoke of the Aryan kings, And we burst our bonds in Cathay ; We waged good war on the Mid-sea shore, And we conquered the Carthaginian whore; Babylon's walls to the ground we threw, And the millions of Timur, the Tartar, we slew ; Istar and Isis we hurled to doom, And we shrouded foul Nineveh's halls in gloom ; Rome broke her pact and we crumbled her fanes, Forum and Pantheon rust in the rains ; Attila's curs to their kennels we drove, And the skull of the ravaging Vandal we clove ; Down through the ages, from Egypt to Spain Pharaoh the Slaver, and Louis the Vain ; Lust-mad Belshazzar, and Caesar, who dared None who laid hands on our birthright we spared.
What to read after The Waiting Woman?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Kaufman Herbert to read onlineMoreLess
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