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And darkly clouded was his brow, : 1G 
For his frail heart had proved untrue 
When first the Princess met his view. 
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Perchance the church may counsel well. ; 
Thus spoke the prelate :—“ Masses three 
The church must say, ere thou art free; 
A monastery, too, must thou 
With rights and tenements endow: 
This done, the spells of darkness cease, 
And thou, my son, may’st wed in peace.” 
The Naiad and her child had fled, 
The morn that Stauffen was to wed. 
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It was the nuptial feast—he tried 
To lay each painful thought aside ; 
Yet could he not, for whilst he knelt 
Before the altar, he-had felt 
Tear-drops fall on him, and their chill Aa ; 
Through all his yeins was creeping still. 
vd raised his goblet—ere his lip 
he renovating draught could sip, 
The ruby juice, so bright and clear, 
Was troubled by—a single tear. 
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And now fair Stauffen’s height is seen,’ 
Its towers so gray, its woods so Breen; 5 
And then first spoke its gallant lord, ' af DSR 
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And first. will:pass it?’— ) dah esds word 
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