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FANCHETTE. BY MRS. D. M. OSGOOD. The storm ceased at midnight? The
wave seems to sleep, And the sea-gull flies screaming Away o'er the
deep; And Fanchette is waiting At morn on the shore, For the boat
that returneth, Returneth no more. Oh, bright flashed the sunlight
At morn on her sail And loud in her canvass At night roared the
gale; And the maiden waits ever In vain on the shore, For the boat
that returneth, Returneth no more. And thus thou art watching, Oh,
heart on the sand, For the bark that loosed anchor At morn from the
strand? Rich, rich was the lading That fair vessel bore? " Hope,
and trust, and affection, That come back no more. HILDEGARDE. A
ROMANCE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. " Is this her fault, or mine 1 The
tempter, or the tempted, who sins most 1 Ha Not she; nor doth she
tempt: but it is I, That lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the
carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous
season."?Shakspeare. CHAPTER I. During the dark and superstitious
age of the twelfth century, few persons of religious character, of
either sex, maintained a more exalted reputation for piety, or
exercised by the aid of prophetic oracles, and miraculous visions,
greater ascendancy over the minds of both Germany and Italy, than
Hildegarde, Abbess of St. Ruperts, near Bingen, on the Rhine. Her
claims were well suited to the age in which she lived. Crowds of
persons of all ranks received her decisions as the commands of the
most high God. Cardinals and Archbishops bent with obsequious
acquiescence to her holy decrees, and even the papal throne, which
at that period held the reins of all Europe in its powerful grasp,
failed not to further its own ambitious projects by feigning to
respect her mysterious and lofty pr...
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