The Sea-King A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg |
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“He knew too of thy coming here,He sees the fate that hangeth o'er thee;
He gives thee now a welcome cheer,—
For Orvar stands before thee.”
The Sea-King started, “art thou he?”
In troublous accents then he said,
“Who triumphed o'er mortality,
Obeyed by powers of air, and sea,
The living and the dead?”
He straightway answered “I am he.”
“But not for this I brought thee here,
Look round thee Ragnar far and near,—
For now the veil is rent, and thou mayest see
Th' uncurtained picture of futurity!”
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