Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty
Chapter 10
IN WHICH YOU SEE A SECRET SPRING
O I have seen a fair mermaid, That sang beside a lonely sea, And now her long black hair she'll braid, And be my own good wife to me.
O woe's the day you saw the maid, And woe's the song she sang the sea, In hell her long black hair she'll braid, For ne'er a soul at all has she!
_Sir Hugh and the Mermaiden._
MARGARITA'S SOUL