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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Then Ragnar turned away,—this dreadful sightWas more than he could bear:
And something like the mists of night
Gathered about his brow; and he might view
(Through the vapour thin and blue,)
An ever restless sea:
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Fair Britain's lonely isle:—
And on its rocks he saw a huge ship stranded,
The crew meanwhile,
Upon the shore had landed.
And oh! what folly! sought with hostile arms
To tempt their fate, by spreading war's alarms.
Then came the scene of strife,
While terror spread around
Blood crimsoned all the ground,—
A sea of wasted life.—
But soon the strife was o'er,
How could that little band,
Against such numbers stand,
As lined the hostile shore?
Drowned in their blood, they darken all the plain,
Cut off from life, like bearded shocks of grain.
| The Sea-King | |