Listen to:
Like as a Huntsman (:53)
by Edmund Spenser
performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode
Like
as a huntsman after weary chase,
Seeing
the game from him escap'd away,
Sits
down to rest him in some shady place,
With
panting hounds beguiled of their prey:
So
after long pursuit and vain assay,
When
I all weary had the chase forsook,
The
gentle deer return'd the self-same way,
Thinking
to quench her thirst at the next brook.
There
she beholding me with milder look,
Sought
not to fly, but fearless still did bide:
Till
I in hand her yet half trembling took,
And
with her own goodwill here firmly tied.
Strange
thing, me seem'd, to see a beast so wild,
So
goodly won, with her own will beguil'd.
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