Cold Feet

What twisted, darkened gleams are dancing in your eye;
how aweful it all seems above a wicked smile. 
And haunting all my dreams, I find I know not why
my soul with shivers teems as she walks down the aisle.

For you are dead and buried deep, 
and none but I know where thou sleeps.
I know you're dead, and none will weep, 
for none but I your mem'ry keeps.

Yet when I gazed upon her veil,
my heart within me failed.
For what I saw through lace so frail, 
your face, and mine soon paled. 

“Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.”

“It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.”

~Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

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