Chapter 25 THE CONTRACT.

Twice thirty centuries and more ago,

All in a heavenly Abyssinian vale,

Man first met woman; and the ruddy snow

On many-ridg?d Abora turn'd pale,

And the song choked within the nightingale.

A mild white furnace in the thorough blast

Of purest spirit seem'd She as she pass'd;

And of the Man enough that this be said,

He look'd