The Sea-King A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg |
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The Sea-King | ||
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Now the last step they reach, and now they treadThe echoing pavement of the marble floor.
The Sea-King starts, oh sight of dread!
Oh sight of horror, and of woe!
A thousand skeletons of human dead
Stand in a ghastly row:
Each side as far as eye can reach they stand,
The red torch glaring in their fleshless hand!
“What meaneth this?” the Sea-King cried,
“O heed them not” the old man said,
“These harmless stand on either side,
And wait upon the mighty dead.
Between these lifeless ranks we go
To reach the vaults that lie below.”
The Sea-King | ||