21.Mine! mine! with rapturous joy Ereenia cried,Immortal now, and yet not more divine;Mine, mine. . . for ever mine!The immortal Maid replied,For ever, ever, thine!22.Then Yamen said, O thou to whom, by Fate,Alone of all mankind, this lot is given,Daughter of Earth, but now the Child of HeavenGo with thy heavenly Mate,Partaker now of his immortal bliss;Go to the Swerga Bowers,And there recall the hoursOf endless happiness.23.But that sweet Angel, for she still retain’dHer human loves and human piety,As if reluctant at the God’s commands,Linger’d, with anxious eyeUpon her father fix’d, and spread her handsToward him wistfully.Go! Yamen cried, nor cast that look behindUpon Ladurlad at this parting hour,For thou shalt find him in thy Mother’s Bower.24.The Car, as Carmala his word obey’d,Mov’d on, and bore away the Maid,While from the Golden Throne the Lord of DeathWith love benignant, on Ladurlad smil’d,And gently on his head his blessing laid.As sweetly as a child,Whom neither thought disturbs nor care encumbers,Tir’d with long play, at close of summer day,Lies down and slumbers,Even thus as sweet a boon of sleep partaking,By Yamen blest, Ladurlad sunk to rest.Blessed that sleep! more blessed was the waking!For on that night a heavenly morning broke,The light of heaven was round him when he woke,And in the Swerga, in Yedillian’s Bower,All whom he lov’d he met, to part no more.THE END.
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