The Sea-King A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg |
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V.
Never before had human vision seenSuch bright unmingled splendour, as the scene
Which Ragnar gazed upon presented to his view.
Not like your paltry palaces of wood
That glorious fabric stood;—
Far, far above him there was reared
A lofty ceiling, that appeared
A roof of silver, glittering, bright, and sheen;
Reflecting beams of light,
Upon the wondering sight,
In such continued and resplendent streams,
That the fair queen of night,
And sun more glorious, and more bright,
Would in that fabric hide their darkened beams,
Lost in transcendent light.
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