Excerpt: ...countenance. 'Halfred, ' his two friends called him. "And ever nearer floated the sailing Swan. But when, one cloudy night, the moon shone not upon my pillow, and my eyes could not see the ship, and the man, then yearning seized upon me for that noble countenance. And I laid my pillow and my head, since then, ever carefully under the full flood of the moonlight. And night after night I gazed again on that lofty forehead and these palid temples. "But still more beautiful and lordly art thou, than thy dream ...
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Excerpt: ...countenance. 'Halfred, ' his two friends called him. "And ever nearer floated the sailing Swan. But when, one cloudy night, the moon shone not upon my pillow, and my eyes could not see the ship, and the man, then yearning seized upon me for that noble countenance. And I laid my pillow and my head, since then, ever carefully under the full flood of the moonlight. And night after night I gazed again on that lofty forehead and these palid temples. "But still more beautiful and lordly art thou, than thy dream picture; and never have I seen a man to equal thee." "But thou," cried Halfred, seizing both the singer's hands, "art like Baldur in spring beauty, gentle boy. "Never have I seen such perfect charm in youth or in maiden. Like sunshine upon chilled limbs, like Chios wine through parched throat, flows thy beauty through my eyes deep into my soul. Thou art as the blackbird's song and the wood flowers: as the evening star in golden clouds; thou art as the most wonderful song which ever resounded from the lips of a Skald; thyself, as thou livest and movest, thou art pure poetry. "O Thoril, golden boy, how gentle thou art! how thou hast quickened my grief-worn heart. O Thoril, leave me never again! "Take up once more thy magic harp; uplift once more that sweet song, which has awakened my soul from the sleep of death. "O come, let me lay my heavy head upon thy knee, and gaze in thy sunny wondrous face, while thou tunest thy harp, and playest and singest." And thus they both did. And trustfully flew one of the doves from Thoril's hand to Halfred's broad shoulder, and cooed lovingly to the other. And when the song was ended, Halfred seized again the two hands of the boy, and drew them slowly slowly over his forehead, and his moist eyes. And it all was as it stands written in the sacred books of the Jews, of the King full of sadness and heaviness, who could only be healed by the harp-playing of the son...
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