The Tales and Novels, v5: The Princess Bethrothed to Garba
Excerpt
ALACIEL’S
story’s of another kind,
And
I’ve a little altered it, you’ll find;
Faults
some may see, and others disbelieve;
’Tis
all the same:—’twill never make me
grieve;
Alaciel’s
mem’ry, it is very clear,
Can
scarcely by it lose; there’s naught to fear.
Two
facts important I have kept in view,
In
which the author fully I pursue;
The
one—no less than eight the belle possessed,
Before
a husband’s sight her eyes had blessed;
The
other is, the prince she was to wed
Ne’er
seemed to heed this trespass on his bed,
But
thought, perhaps, the beauty she had got
Would
prove to any one a happy lot.