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The bridal of Vaumond

A Metrical Romance
Sands, Robert Charles (1799-1832)

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THE BRIDAL OF VAUMOND;
  
PREFACE.
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PART FIRST.
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PART SECOND.
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PART THIRD.
  
INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE
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SCENE IX. ÆTNA.
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SCENE X. THE PEASANT
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III.
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VII.
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VIII.
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XI.
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XII.
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XIII. The Peasant's Legend.
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XVIII.
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SCENE XI. THE BRIDAL.
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SCENE XII. THE COMBAT.
  
CONCLUSION.

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X.

On sped the knight his anxious way:
Beneath fair Val-Demoni lay;

Val-Demoni; so called from the suppose infernal inhabitants, and from its being the haunt of the ancient condottieri and modern banditti. Brydone.


Her tangled screen the caves concealing,
Where murder gaunt and rapine stealing
In fastnesses unsearchable
Plot the black train of wo and ill;
And—or the peasant's fears belie
Their foul and damning treachery—
Deep in their unhallow'd wold
With mountain spirits converse hold,
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The knight could tell—but he must be
Wrapt in a boding secrecy.
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