Monday, October 19, 2009

Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes


Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air,
Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair,
Then thrice three times tie up this true love's knot,
And murmur soft "She will, or she will not."

Go burn these pois'nous weeds in yon blue fire,
These screech-owl's feathers and this prickling briar,
This cypress gathered at a dead man's grave,
That all my fears and cares an end may have.

Then come, you fairies! dance with me a round;
Melt her hard heart with your melodious sound.
In vain are all the charms I can devise:
She hath an art to break them with her eyes.
~Thomas Campion

2 comments:

jaz@octoberfarm said...

OMG...do you know anything about this painting? i have it hanging in my dining room! i bought it at auction years ago and i never knew anything about it!

Wendy Anderson =i= said...

Hey jaz, It's called A Visit to the Witch by Edward Frederick Brewtnall (British, 1846 - 1902) How wonderful that you own a painting of it!

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