The Sea-King A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg |
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XXX.
“Nay frown thou not on me;—Vainly I would prevent,
As vainly I lament,
Their direful misery.
For mortal fear was that strong power,
Which robbed them of their peace;
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Can bring them their release.
A dreadful monster lurks below,
Whose terrors caused their lasting woe:
And vain is magic power,
Against that monster fell;—
Had he been open to a spell,
He, long ere this good hour,
Had howled a tortured fiend in hell.”
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