I Have Given My Word That Only

She Is Melusina, The Water Goddess, And She Is Found In Hidden Springs And Waterfalls In Any Forest In Christendom, Even In Those As Far Away As Greece. (...) A Man May Love Her If He Keeps Her Secret And Lets Her Alone When She Wants To Bathe, And She May Love Him In Return Until He Breaks His Word, As Men Always Do, And She Sweeps Him Into The Depths With Her Fishy Tail, And Turns His Faithless Blood To Water. The Tragedy Of Melusina, Whatever Language Tells It, Whatever Tune It Sings, Is That A Man Will Always Promise More Than He Can Do To A Woman He Cannot Understand.

If It Has To Be Done At All, It Must Be Done With Grace.

Plainly, She Is Quite Besotted By Him,... A Girl, A Young Girl, And She Is Falling In Love For The First Time In Her Life. ...little Kitty Howard At A Loss, Stumbling In Her Speech, Blushing Like A Rose, Thinking Of Someone Else And Not Herself Is To See A Girl Become A Woman.

I Have Given My Word That Only Death Will Take Me From You.

They Say That At The Mountain Pass He Looked Back At His Kingdom, His Beautiful Kingdom, And Wept, And His Mother Told Him To Weep Like A Woman For What He Could Not Hold As A Man.