The serving-folk had vanish’d,
women as well as men:
The door of the bride-chamber
was quickly closèd then.
He thought he should be clasping
her sweet form presently—
The time was still far distant
when she his wife would be.
The serving-folk had vanish’d,
women as well as men:
The door of the bride-chamber
was quickly closèd then.
He thought he should be clasping
her sweet form presently—
The time was still far distant
when she his wife would be.