Psyche, and other poems — page 102: what you’re looking at

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‘ BA Fearful she stops, and calls aloud in vain, The storm-roused woods roar only in replys Anxious her loved protector to regain Layidis Dies She trembling listens to Credulity, Who points where they a glimmering light may spy; Which, through the shade of intervening trees © And all the misty blackness of the sky, Casting a weak and dubious ray she sees, | And fain by this would seek her terrors to appease. . Yet hoping that, allured by that same light Whiéeh singly seemed through all the gloom to shine, She there at last might meet her wandering knight, ‘Yhither her footsteps doubtingly incline | As best the uncertain path they could divine, _ All tangled as it wound through brake and briar: — While to affright her soul at once combine A thousand shapeless forms of terror dire, Mere shrieks the ill-omened bird, there glares the me- teor’s fire. or in the deep centre of the mazy wood, With matted ivy and wild vine o’ergrown, A Gothic castle solitary stood, | With massive walls built firm of murky stone; Long had Credulity its mistress known, Meagre her form and tawny was her hue, Unsociably she lived, unloved, alone, No cheerful prospects gladdened e’er her view, And her pale hollow eyes oblique their glances threw. Comichbookssecom