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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The day now won, a wild dismay
Blench'd every cheek of Norroway!
The list now oped to Odin's priest,
Who ran to have his king released;
Upraised his huge and fainting frame,
And comfort spoke in Odin's name;
While leeches plied with license brief,
But, ah! the case was past relief!
Seven deadly wounds, and all before,
Told them great Eric's reign was o'er,
Still, not one sentence he had spoke,
But whisper'd o'er the name of Lok.
Lok! Lok! that name of terror hung
Alone upon his dying tongue.
Blench'd every cheek of Norroway!
The list now oped to Odin's priest,
Who ran to have his king released;
Upraised his huge and fainting frame,
And comfort spoke in Odin's name;
While leeches plied with license brief,
But, ah! the case was past relief!
Seven deadly wounds, and all before,
Told them great Eric's reign was o'er,
Still, not one sentence he had spoke,
But whisper'd o'er the name of Lok.
Lok! Lok! that name of terror hung
Alone upon his dying tongue.
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