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The Dance of Death

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Vauzelles Jean de

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Maid half-won, the lover passionate;

He hath no grace for weakness and decay:

The tender Wife, the Widow bent and gray,

The feeble Sire whose footstep faltereth,—

All these he leadeth by the lonely way ...

There is no king more terrible than Death.

ENVOY.

Youth, for whose ear and monishing of late,

I sang of Prodigals and lost estate,

Have thou thy joy of living and be gay;

But know not less that there must come a day,—

Aye, and perchance e'en now it hasteneth,—

When thine own heart shall speak to thee and say,—

There is no king more terrible than Death.

1877. A. D.

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This Chant Royal of the King of Terrors is—with Mr. Austin Dobson's consent—here reprinted from his Collected Poems, 1896.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

N.B.—The German titles are in general modernized from those which appear above the engraver's proofs. The numerals are those of the cuts.

The Creation	I
Die Schöpfung aller Ding.
Eve is taken from the side of Adam.
The Temptation	II
"Adam Eua im Paradyss."
Eve, having received an apple from the serpent, prompts Adam to gather more.
The Expulsion	III
"Vsstribung Ade Eue."
Adam and Eve, preceded by Death, playing on a beggar's lyre or hurdy-gurdy, are driven by the angel from Eden.
The Consequences of the Fall	IV
Adam baut die Erden.
Adam, aided by Death, tills the earth. Eve, with a distaff, suckles Cain in the background.
A Cemetery	V
Gebein aller Menschen.
A crowd of skeletons, playing on horns, trumpets, and the like, summon mankind to the grave.
The Pope	VI
Der Päpst.
The Pope (Leo X.) with Death at his side, crowns an Emperor, who kisses his foot. Another Death, in a cardinal's hat, is among the assistants.
The Emperor	VII
Der Kaiser.
The Emperor (Maximilian I.) rates his minister for injustice to a suitor. But even in the act Death discrowns him.
The King	VIII
Der König.
The King (Francis I.) sits at feast under a baldachin sprinkled with fleurs-de-lis. Death, as a cup-bearer, pours his last draught.
The Cardinal	IX
Der Cardinal.
Death lifts off the Cardinal's hat as he is handing a letter of indulgence to a rich man. Luther's opponent, Cardinal Cajetan, is supposed to be represented.
The Empress	X
Die Kaiserinn.
The Empress, walking with her women, is intercepted by a female Death, who conducts her to an open grave.
The Queen	XI
Die Königinn.
Death, in the guise of a court-jester, drags away the Queen as she is leaving her palace.
The Bishop	XII
Der Bischof.
The sun is setting, and Death leads the aged Bishop from the sorrowing shepherds of his flock.
The Duke	XIII
Der Herzog.
The Duke turns pitilessly from a beggar-woman and her child. Meanwhile Death, fantastically crowned, lays hands on him.
The Abbot	XIV
Der Abt.
Death, having despoiled the Abbot of mitre and crozier, hales him along unwilling, and threatening his enemy with his breviary.
The Abbess

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