 Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day is the third since you began.' 'The time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother.' (O Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven!) 'But if you have done your work aright, Sister...  A Book of Romantic Ballads - Página 121901 - 336 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...begins to perceive that his sister is concentrating her whole soul upon the melting wax, and asks — " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day is the third since you began ;" to which she replies — " The time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." Further : — "... | |
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