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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., Maria del Occidente. (search)
e, married at the age of fourteen to a man thrice her years, heavy, dull, uncongenial, should fall in love with this seraphic being! She says to him: Well may I desire you to remain; you seem to me like an incarnation of the sun, like a living Apollo. In your presence I forget there is anything like a pain in existence; when I look on you and hear you speak, I feel transported to the region of beauty and music. Idomen, however, remembers her duty as a wife, and Ethelwald leaves her. Heithin two years of thirty; but the fabled Venus, as she stepped from her shell, could not have been imagined more exempt from blemish and discolor. Ethelwald, for a moment, observed my attention. When you last saw me, he said, you likened me to Apollo; but now you see me a mortal, almost an old man. My quick answer was: What then am I? When your hair is gray, he returned, mine will be white, and in that thought there is comfort. Such a speech from such a creature, how could I do otherwise