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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Death-Lament Of The Noble Wife Of Asan Aga</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">WHAT is yonder white thing in the forest?<br>Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be?<br>Were it snow, ere this it had been melted,<br>Were it swans, they all away had hastend.<br>Snow, in truth, it is not, swans it is not,<br>'Tis the shining tents of Asan Aga.<br>He within is lying, sorely wounded;<br>To him come his mother and his sister;<br>Bashfully his wife delays to come there.<br>When the torment of his wounds had lessen'd,<br>To his faithful wife he sent this message:<br>"At my court no longer dare to tarry,<br>At my court, or e'en amongst my people."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When the woman heard this cruel message,<br>Mute and full of sorrow stood that true one.<br>At the doors she hears the feet of horses,<br>And bethinks that Asan comes--her husband,<br>To the tower she springs, to leap thence headlong,<br>Her two darling daughters follow sadly,<br>And whilst weeping bitter tears, exclaim they:<br>These are not our father Asan's horses;<br>'Tis thy brother Pintorowich coming!"</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So the wife of Asan turns to meet him,<br>Clasps her arms in anguish round her brother:<br>"See thy sister's sad disgrace, oh brother!<br>How I'm banish'd--mother of five children!"<br>Silently her brother from his wallet,<br>Wrapp'd in deep red-silk, and ready written,<br>Draweth forth the letter of divorcement,<br>To return home to her mother's dwelling,<br>Free to be another's wife thenceforward.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When the woman saw that mournful letter,<br>Fervently she kiss'd her two sons' foreheads,<br>And her two girls' cheeks with fervour kiss'd she,<br>But she from the suckling in the cradle<br>Could not tear herself, so deep her sorrow!<br>So she's torn thence by her fiery brother,<br>On his nimble steed he lifts her quickly,<br>And so hastens, with the heart-sad woman,<br>Straightway tow'rd his father's lofty dwelling.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Short the time was--seven days had pass'd not,--<br>Yet enough 'twas; many mighty princes<br>Sought the woman in her widow's-mourning.<br>Sought the woman,--as their wife they sought her.<br>And the mightiest was Imoski's Cadi,<br>And the woman weeping begg'd her brother:<br>By thy life, my brother, I entreat thee,<br>Let me not another's wife be ever,<br>Lest my heart be broken at the image<br>Of my poor, my dearly-cherish'd children!"</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">To her prayer her brother would not hearken,<br>Fix'd to wed her to Imoski's Cadi.<br>Yet the good one ceaselessly implored him:<br>"Send, at least a letter, oh, my brother,<br>With this message to Imoski's Cadi:<br>'The young widow sends thee friendly greeting;<br>Earnestly she prays thee, through this letter,<br>That, when thou com'st hither, with thy Suatians,<br>A long veil thou'lt bring me, 'neath whose shadow<br>I may hide, when near the house of Asan,<br>And not see my dearly cherish'd orphans.'"</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Scarcely had the Cadi read this letter,<br>Than he gather'd all his Suatians round him,<br>And then tow'rd the bride his course directed,<br>And the veil she ask'd for, took he with him.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Happily they reach'd the princess' dwelling,<br>From the dwelling happily they led her.<br>But when they approach'd the house of Asan,<br>Lo! the children saw from high their mother,<br>And they shouted: "To thy halls return thou!<br>Eat thy supper with thy darling children!"<br>Mournfully the wife of Asan heard it,<br>Tow'rd the Suatian prince then turn'd she, saying:<br>"Let, I pray, the Suatians and the horses<br>At the loved ones' door a short time tarry,<br>That I may give presents to my children."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And before the loved ones' door they tarried,<br>And she presents gave to her poor children,<br>To the boys gave gold-embroider'd buskins,<br>To the girls gave long and costly dresses,<br>To the suckling, helpless in the cradle,<br>Gave a garment, to be worn hereafter.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This aside saw Father Asan Aga,--<br>Sadly cried he to his darling children:<br>"Hither come, ye dear unhappy infants,<br>For your mother's breast is turn'd to iron,<br>Lock'd for ever, closed to all compassion!"</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=418593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When the wife of Asan heard him speak thus,<br>On the ground, all pale and trembling, fell she,<br>And her spirit fled her sorrowing bosom,<br>When she saw her children flying from her.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a></strong></div>