The Sea-King A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg |
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Up, up with a roar, and a tear,Through the infinite abyss they flew;
With a whiz through the thick humid air,
Went the shallop of ethery hue.
The motion now subsiding, grew more slow,
Now gently on the element they ride;
As though a power from the abyss below,
Upheld and urged them, on a placid tide.
Then Ragnar started up; and to his gaze,
Two brazen gates were given; that seemed to hide
Themselves in their own magnitude; their blaze
Was such as human eye could scarce abide.—
Against these wondrous gates, the labouring tide
Waged an incessant war; wave following wave,
As though a hundred giants strove with pain
To break the eternal barrier, but in vain.
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