The Sea-King A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg |
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XXII.
“What meaneth this?” the hero said,“I can behold with an unflinching eye
That fearful land, of horror and of dread,
The darksome regions of the ignoble dead,
Where spirits mean, in Hela's palace lie.
And aye uncurtained
Are things of deep and dreadful mystery,
And aye the scroll of destiny
Is by mine eye,—by far too daring, read.”
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