The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg] |
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King Eric and his champions twain
Enter'd the lists the first; and then
Appear'd the Scottish heroes three,
Arm'd and accoutred gallantly.
But when they met to measure swords,
And change salute in courteous words,
From the Scots files there rose a groan;
For far, in stature and in bone,
The Norse excell'd; so far indeed
That theirs appear'd of pigmy breed.
Enter'd the lists the first; and then
Appear'd the Scottish heroes three,
Arm'd and accoutred gallantly.
But when they met to measure swords,
And change salute in courteous words,
From the Scots files there rose a groan;
For far, in stature and in bone,
The Norse excell'd; so far indeed
That theirs appear'd of pigmy breed.
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