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Angels and Women (1924)

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TEBAH AND ITS INMATES 217<br />

gift, which poor Aldeth had conveyed from<br />

the Palace--the last service of her devoted<br />

life, who also now sleeps beneath the heaving<br />

billows. The casket has never been<br />

opened. I might now look upon its contents.<br />

With trembling fingers I pressed the spring.<br />

It unclosed; a soft perfume was exhaled <strong>and</strong><br />

a light vapor passed from an ivory tablet<br />

which bore these words:<br />

Sigh with me, Aloma,<br />

Answer sigh by sigh;<br />

Drink with me, Aloma,<br />

The cup of ecstasy.<br />

Love with me, Aloma,<br />

Then shall bliss unknown,<br />

Born of angel’s passion<br />

Ever be thine own.<br />

I raised the tablet, <strong>and</strong> beneath, upon a<br />

silken cushion, lay a diadem of rarest beauty<br />

--a wreath of silver lilies, exquisitely<br />

wrought <strong>and</strong> frosted snowy white. Depending<br />

from the slender filaments were quiver-

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