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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/26793-0.txt b/26793-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f55ce8c --- /dev/null +++ b/26793-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,962 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Expedition to Birting's Land, by George +Borrow, Edited by Thomas J. Wise + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Expedition to Birting's Land + and other ballads + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26793] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EXPEDITION TO BIRTING'S LAND*** + + +Transcribed from the 1914 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + +THE EXPEDITION TO +BIRTING’S LAND +AND OTHER BALLADS + + + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1914 + + _Copyright in the United States of America_ + _by Houghton_, _Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_. + + + + +THE EXPEDITION TO BIRTING’S LAND + + +The King he o’er the castle rules, + He rules o’er all the land; +O’er many a hardy hero too, + With naked sword in hand. + +Let the courtier govern his steed, + The boor his thatchèd cot, +But Denmark’s King o’er castles rules, + For nobler is his lot. + +King Diderik sits on Brattingsborg, + And round he looks with pride: +“No one I know of in the world + Would me in fight abide.” + +Then answered Brand Sir Viferlin, + Had been in many a land: +“Methinks I know a warrior stout + Would thee in fight withstand. + +“He’s Ifald call’d, a king is he, + In Birting’s land afar; +And he has fellows following him + With savage wolves who war. + +“O he has fellows following him + ’Gainst teeth of bears who fight; +The food in which he most delights + Is flesh of Christian wight. + +“Every day in the East that dawns + His mouth he’s wont to cool +With serpents, toads, and other filth, + That come from the hellish pool.” + +As Ifald sat on his throne that day + He thus was heard to cry: +“Let some one bid my little foot page + To come to me instantly. + +“Now list to me, thou little foot page, + On my errand thee I’ll send +Unto the King of Brattingsborg, + To whom I am no friend. + +“Tell him that he must tribute pay, + Or for bloody war prepare; +Forsooth if him in the field I meet + I him will little spare.” + +Then answered straight the little foot page + And a gallant answer he gave: +“My Lord thy message I’ll carry forth, + Though they lay me in my grave.” + +In came he, the little foot page, + And stood before the board: +“Now list to me, King Diderik, + My master has sent you word. + +“Either tribute thou shalt pay, + As thou didst last year agree, +Or thou shalt meet us in the field, + And bloodshed there shall be.” + +“I will not tribute pay, forsooth, + I scorn to stoop so low; +Nay, rather unto Birting’s land + With sword unsheathed I go.” + +Then answer’d Vitting Helfredson, + And loud he laughed with glee: +“If ye fare this year into Birting’s land + I too of the troop shall be. + +“Last year wast thou in Birting’s land, + And there didst lose thy steed; +Thou hadst better stay in Brattingsborg + Than again seek Birting’s mead.” + +“On me, if I stay in Brattingsborg, + Be every malison; +If I have no horse on which to ride + I have legs on which to run.” + +There rode out from Brattingsborg + So many a knight renown’d; +The rocks were split ’neath the coursers’ feet, + And quaked the startled ground. + +There rode forth King Diderik, + The lion upon his shield; +And there too glittered the golden crown + So far across the field. + +There rode Vidrik Verlandson, + The hammer and tongs he bore; +And there rode good King Esmer’s sons, + All men of wondrous power. + +There rode the rich Count Rodengard, + A warrior stout and fine; +And there rode King Sir Sigfred, who + Displayed a monarch’s sign. + +Then followed Siward Snarenswayne, + With many arrows white; +And then came Brand Sir Viferlin, + Who never fled from fight. + +And next rode Hero Hogen, + He looked a rose so brave; +And then rode Folker Spillemand, + In his hand a naked glaive. + +Then rode the bold young Ulf Van Yern, + A glorious horse upon; +Behind him young Sir Humble rode, + And then Sir Sigfredson. + +And then rode Gunther and Gernot, + With arrow on bended bow; +And there rode Sonne Tolkerson, + With courage upon his brow. + +There rode the little Grimmer, + In golden acton dight; +And there rode Seyer the active, + Who yields to none in might. + +And then came master Hildebrand, + As though to his courser fixt; +The stalwart friar Alsing rode + The ancient hero next. + +There rode Orm the Ungarswayne, + So bold of heart was he; +So joyous were they every one, + And sure of victory. + +Out galloped they all from Brattingsborg, + As fast as they could speed; +But Vitting bold came running behind, + Because he had no steed. + +It was hardy Angelfyr, + To Grimselin he cried: +“O, he must on his bare legs run + Who has no horse to ride!” + +And still ran Vitting, and still ran he, + Till with wrath he nigh was wode; +Then he struck a warrior from his horse + And sat himself on, and rode. + +It was Sir King Diderik, + He back a glance did throw: +“O yonder I see the courtier ride + Who on foot was wont to go. + +“Here thou, Vitting Helfredson, + Thou art a warrior bold; +Thou shalt hie forward to Birting’s land, + And demand the tribute gold. + +“With thee shall Vidrik Verlandson, + And Diderik knight of Bern; +Of all my troop they are best at blows, + And most for battle yearn.” + +They set themselves upon their steeds, + And away they rode like wind; +The knights they roared, and their steeds they gored, + For wroth were they in mind. + +The watchman stood on the battlement + From whence he far could see: +“Yonder I warriors three espy + Who wrathful seem to be. + +“The one is Vitting Helfredson + Who lost his steed last year; +That a rugged guest he’ll prove to us + We have full cause to fear. + +“The second is Vidrik Verlandson, + As the tongs and hammer shew; +The third is Diderik Van Bern, + All warriors good, I trow.” + +They left their steeds in the castle yard, + To the castle strode they in; +Then might each man by their faces see + A fray would soon begin. + +Upon the porter they laid their hands, + And him to pieces hew’d; +Then in they strode to the high, high hall, + And before the King they stood. + +Then up rose Ifald the King in rage, + And thus the King did cry: +“O, whence are come the ill-starr’d loons + Before my board I spy?” + +Then answered the skinker of the King, + Who skinkèd wine and mead: +“Our sharp spears, if we ply them well, + Will drive them out with speed.” + +It was Vitting Helfredson, + By the beard the skinker has ta’en; +He smote him a blow the ear below, + Which dashed out half his brain. + +He flung the dead corse on the board, + And a merry jest had he: +“Who’ll taste,” said Vitting Helfredson, + “This precious roast for me?” + +Then forth stepped Diderik Van Bern, + And, brandishing his glaive, +He hewed upon King Ifald’s head, + And him to the navel clave. + +And forth stepped Vidrik Verlandson, + And round began to hew; +Heads and arms were smitten off + As round and round he flew. + +In came King Ifald’s mother grey, + With an eldritch scream she came; +I tell to ye in verity + There ensued a wondrous game. + +Vitting struck her with his sword, + A very fearful stroke; +But she kissed asunder the good sword, + Into pieces three it broke. + +With a single kiss of the witch’s mouth + Was shivered the trusty sword; +Vitting the hag by the weazand seized, + Without a single word. + +The beldame changed herself to a crane, + And flew to the clouds on high; +But Vitting donned a feather robe, + And pursued her through the sky. + +They flew for a day, they flew for three, + Bold Vitting and the crane; +Then Vitting seized the crane by the legs, + And her body rent in twain. + +Homeward now, with sword in hand, + The valiant comrades wended: +All the Birting kemps are dead, + And the adventure ended. + + + + +THE SINGING MARINER +_A Ballad from the Spanish_ + + +Who will ever have again, +On the land or on the main, +Such a chance as happen’d to +Count Arnaldos long ago. + +With his falcon in his hand, +Forth he went along the strand; +There he saw a galley gay, +Briskly bearing for the bay. + +Ask me not her name and trade,— +All the sails of silk were made; +He who steer’d the ship along +Raised his voice, and sang a song. + +Sang a song whose magic force +Calm’d the breaker in its course; +While the fishes, sore amazed, +Left their holes and upward gazed. + +And the fowl came flocking fast, +Round the summit of the mast; +Still he sang to wind and wave: +“God preserve my vessel brave! + +“Guard her from the rocks that grow +’Mid the sullen deep below; +From the gust, and from the breeze, +Sweeping through Gibtarek’s seas. + +“From the gulf of Venice too, +With its shoals and waters blue; +Where the mermaid chants her hymn, +Borne upon the billow’s brim.” + +Forward stept Arnaldos bold, +Thus he spake, as I am told: +“Teach me, sailor, I entreat, +Yonder song that sounds so sweet.” + +But the sailor shook his head, +Shook it thrice, and briefly said: +“Never will I teach the strain +But to him who ploughs the main.” + + + + +YOUTH’S SONG IN SPRING + + +O, scarcely is Spring a time of pure bliss, + He is wrong who full trust thereon layeth; +From many it may +Take sorrow away, + But to many it trouble conveyeth. + +O, when every thing is as joyous in Spring, + As in heaven, that never is dreary; +’Tis a grievous case +If one mournful must pace, + And cannot be also merry! + + + + +THE NIGHTINGALE +_Translated from the Danish_ + + +In midnight’s calm hour the Nightingale sings + Of freedom, of love, and delight; +Come, haste to the grove where melody rings, + ’Tis Philomel’s notes that invite. +A fowler attentively follows her there, +Resolv’d for his victim to spread out a snare: +_Think_, _girls_, _of the Nightingale’s fate_, _and beware_! + +In ambush his nets he carefully brings, + Glad innocence feels no alarm; +Unguarded her flight—’midst danger she wings— + And falls into sorrowful harm. +Alas! she is silent, and full of despair, +He glides away quick with his treasure so rare: +_Think_, _girls_, _of the Nightingale’s fate_, _and beware_! + +A beautiful cage adorns his fair prize, + In hope that for him she will sing; +But Freedom, that wafted her notes to the skies, + Bore Gladness away on its wing. +Thus you, Philomela, resemble the fair, +And we, we delight in the love that we share: +_O_, _think of the Nightingale’s fate_, _and beware_! + + + + +LINES + + +Say from what mine took Love the yellow gold + To form those tresses? from what thorn-bush tore + Those roses sleek? and from what summit bore +That stainless snow which seems no longer cold? + + + + +MORNING SONG +_Nu rinder Solen op_ + + +From Eastern quarters now + The sun’s up-wandering, +His rays on the rock’s brow + And hill’s side squandering. +Be glad, my soul! and sing amidst thy pleasure, + Fly from the house of dust, + Up with thy thanks, and trust +To heaven’s azure! + +O, countless as the grains + Of sand so tiny, +Measureless as the main’s + Deep waters briny, +God’s mercy is, which He upon me showereth. + Each morning in my shell, + A grace immeasurable +To me down-poureth. + +Thou best dost understand, + Lord God! my needing; +And placed is in Thy hand + My fortune’s speeding, +And Thou foresee’st what is for me most fitting. + Be still, then, O my soul! + To manage in the whole +Thy God permitting. + +May fruit the land array, + And corn for eating! +May truth e’er make its way, + With justice meeting! +Give thou to me my share with every other, + ’Till down my staff I lay, + And from this world away +Wend to another! + + + + +FROM THE FRENCH + + +This world by fools is occupied, + And whom the sight of a fool displeases, +Within his chamber himself should hide, + And break his looking-glass to pieces. + + + + +THE MORNING WALK + + +To the beech grove with so sweet an air + It beckon’d me. +O, Earth! that never the cruel plough-share + Had furrow’d thee! +In their dark shelter the flowerets grew, + Bright to the eye, +And smil’d by my foot on the cloudlets blue, + Which deck’d the sky. + +To the wood through a field I took my way; + There I could see +On the field an uppil’d stone-heap lay, + ’Twixt hillocks three; +So anciently grayly white it stood, + An oblong ring: +Here doubtless was held in the old time good + A royal Ting. + +The royal stone, which there doth stand, + The Stol-king press’d, +With crown on head, and sceptre in hand, + In sables drest. +And every warrior solemnly pac’d + Peaceful in thought, +And down on his stone himself calmly plac’d— + No sword he brought. + +The king’s house stood on yonder height, + With walls of power; +On yon had his daughter, the damsel bright, + Her maiden bower. +Upon the third the temple stood, + Through the North famed wide, +Where to Thor was offered the he-goat’s blood, + In reeking tide. + +O, lovely field! and forest fair, + And meads grass-clad; +Her bride-bed Freya every where + Enamelled had. +The corn-flowers rose in azure band + From earthly cell; +Nought else could I do but stop and stand, + And greet them well. + +Welcome on earth’s green breast again, + Ye flowerets dear! +In spring how charming ’mid the grain + Your heads ye rear. +Like stars ’midst lightning’s yellow ray + Ye shine red, blue: +O, how your summer aspect gay + Delights my view. + +O poet! poet! silence keep, + God help thy case: +Our owner holds us sadly cheap, + And scorns our race. +Each time he sees, he calls us scum, + Or worthless tares; +Hell-weeds that but to vex him come + ’Midst his corn-ears. + +The greatest grace done for our sake + In all his life, +Is from his pocket deep to take + His huge clasp knife; +And heavy handful then to cut, + ’Midst grumbling much— +Us with tobacco leaves to put + In seal-skin pouch. + +He says, he says, that smoked this way, + We dross of the field, +To the world by chance, by poor chance, may + Some benefit yield; +But as for our beauty, our blue and red hues, + ’Tis folly indeed— +The mouth is his only test of use, + And that’s his creed. + +O wretched mortals!—O wretched man! + O wretched crowd!— +No pleasures ye pluck—no pleasures ye plan + In life’s lone road:— +Whose eyes are blind to the glories great + Of the works of God; +And dream that the mouth is the nearest gate + To joy’s abode. + +Come flowers! for we to each other belong, + Come graceful elf, +And around my lute in sympathy strong + Now wind thyself; +And quake as if mov’d by zephyr’s wing, + ’Neath the clang of the chord, +And a morning song with glee we’ll sing + To our Maker and Lord! + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + + Printed for THOMAS J. 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Wise + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Expedition to Birting's Land + and other ballads + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26793] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EXPEDITION TO BIRTING'S LAND*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1914 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>THE EXPEDITION TO<br /> +BIRTING’S LAND<br /> +<span class="smcap">and other ballads</span></h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">1914</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Copyright in +the United States of America</i><br /> +<i>by Houghton</i>, <i>Mifflin & Co. for Clement +Shorter</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>THE EXPEDITION TO BIRTING’S LAND</h2> +<p>The King he o’er the castle rules,<br /> + He rules o’er all the land;<br /> +O’er many a hardy hero too,<br /> + With naked sword in hand.</p> +<p>Let the courtier govern his steed,<br /> + The boor his thatchèd cot,<br /> +But Denmark’s King o’er castles rules,<br /> + For nobler is his lot.</p> +<p>King Diderik sits on Brattingsborg,<br /> + And round he looks with pride:<br /> +“No one I know of in the world<br /> + Would me in fight abide.”</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>Then answered Brand Sir Viferlin,<br /> + Had been in many a land:<br /> +“Methinks I know a warrior stout<br /> + Would thee in fight withstand.</p> +<p>“He’s Ifald call’d, a king is he,<br /> + In Birting’s land afar;<br /> +And he has fellows following him<br /> + With savage wolves who war.</p> +<p>“O he has fellows following him<br /> + ’Gainst teeth of bears who fight;<br /> +The food in which he most delights<br /> + Is flesh of Christian wight.</p> +<p>“Every day in the East that dawns<br /> + His mouth he’s wont to cool<br /> +With serpents, toads, and other filth,<br /> + That come from the hellish pool.”</p> +<p>As Ifald sat on his throne that day<br /> + He thus was heard to cry:<br /> +“Let some one bid my little foot page<br /> + To come to me instantly.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>“Now list to me, thou little foot page,<br /> + On my errand thee I’ll send<br /> +Unto the King of Brattingsborg,<br /> + To whom I am no friend.</p> +<p>“Tell him that he must tribute pay,<br /> + Or for bloody war prepare;<br /> +Forsooth if him in the field I meet<br /> + I him will little spare.”</p> +<p>Then answered straight the little foot page<br /> + And a gallant answer he gave:<br /> +“My Lord thy message I’ll carry forth,<br /> + Though they lay me in my grave.”</p> +<p>In came he, the little foot page,<br /> + And stood before the board:<br /> +“Now list to me, King Diderik,<br /> + My master has sent you word.</p> +<p>“Either tribute thou shalt pay,<br /> + As thou didst last year agree,<br /> +Or thou shalt meet us in the field,<br /> + And bloodshed there shall be.”</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>“I will not tribute pay, forsooth,<br /> + I scorn to stoop so low;<br /> +Nay, rather unto Birting’s land<br /> + With sword unsheathed I go.”</p> +<p>Then answer’d Vitting Helfredson,<br /> + And loud he laughed with glee:<br /> +“If ye fare this year into Birting’s land<br /> + I too of the troop shall be.</p> +<p>“Last year wast thou in Birting’s land,<br /> + And there didst lose thy steed;<br /> +Thou hadst better stay in Brattingsborg<br /> + Than again seek Birting’s mead.”</p> +<p>“On me, if I stay in Brattingsborg,<br /> + Be every malison;<br /> +If I have no horse on which to ride<br /> + I have legs on which to run.”</p> +<p>There rode out from Brattingsborg<br /> + So many a knight renown’d;<br /> +The rocks were split ’neath the coursers’ feet,<br /> + And quaked the startled ground.</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>There rode forth King Diderik,<br /> + The lion upon his shield;<br /> +And there too glittered the golden crown<br /> + So far across the field.</p> +<p>There rode Vidrik Verlandson,<br /> + The hammer and tongs he bore;<br /> +And there rode good King Esmer’s sons,<br /> + All men of wondrous power.</p> +<p>There rode the rich Count Rodengard,<br /> + A warrior stout and fine;<br /> +And there rode King Sir Sigfred, who<br /> + Displayed a monarch’s sign.</p> +<p>Then followed Siward Snarenswayne,<br /> + With many arrows white;<br /> +And then came Brand Sir Viferlin,<br /> + Who never fled from fight.</p> +<p>And next rode Hero Hogen,<br /> + He looked a rose so brave;<br /> +And then rode Folker Spillemand,<br /> + In his hand a naked glaive.</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>Then rode the bold young Ulf Van Yern,<br /> + A glorious horse upon;<br /> +Behind him young Sir Humble rode,<br /> + And then Sir Sigfredson.</p> +<p>And then rode Gunther and Gernot,<br /> + With arrow on bended bow;<br /> +And there rode Sonne Tolkerson,<br /> + With courage upon his brow.</p> +<p>There rode the little Grimmer,<br /> + In golden acton dight;<br /> +And there rode Seyer the active,<br /> + Who yields to none in might.</p> +<p>And then came master Hildebrand,<br /> + As though to his courser fixt;<br /> +The stalwart friar Alsing rode<br /> + The ancient hero next.</p> +<p>There rode Orm the Ungarswayne,<br /> + So bold of heart was he;<br /> +So joyous were they every one,<br /> + And sure of victory.</p> +<p><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>Out galloped they all from Brattingsborg,<br /> + As fast as they could speed;<br /> +But Vitting bold came running behind,<br /> + Because he had no steed.</p> +<p>It was hardy Angelfyr,<br /> + To Grimselin he cried:<br /> +“O, he must on his bare legs run<br /> + Who has no horse to ride!”</p> +<p>And still ran Vitting, and still ran he,<br /> + Till with wrath he nigh was wode;<br /> +Then he struck a warrior from his horse<br /> + And sat himself on, and rode.</p> +<p>It was Sir King Diderik,<br /> + He back a glance did throw:<br /> +“O yonder I see the courtier ride<br /> + Who on foot was wont to go.</p> +<p>“Here thou, Vitting Helfredson,<br /> + Thou art a warrior bold;<br /> +Thou shalt hie forward to Birting’s land,<br /> + And demand the tribute gold.</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>“With thee shall Vidrik Verlandson,<br /> + And Diderik knight of Bern;<br /> +Of all my troop they are best at blows,<br /> + And most for battle yearn.”</p> +<p>They set themselves upon their steeds,<br /> + And away they rode like wind;<br /> +The knights they roared, and their steeds they gored,<br /> + For wroth were they in mind.</p> +<p>The watchman stood on the battlement<br /> + From whence he far could see:<br /> +“Yonder I warriors three espy<br /> + Who wrathful seem to be.</p> +<p>“The one is Vitting Helfredson<br /> + Who lost his steed last year;<br /> +That a rugged guest he’ll prove to us<br /> + We have full cause to fear.</p> +<p>“The second is Vidrik Verlandson,<br /> + As the tongs and hammer shew;<br /> +The third is Diderik Van Bern,<br /> + All warriors good, I trow.”</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>They left their steeds in the castle yard,<br /> + To the castle strode they in;<br /> +Then might each man by their faces see<br /> + A fray would soon begin.</p> +<p>Upon the porter they laid their hands,<br /> + And him to pieces hew’d;<br /> +Then in they strode to the high, high hall,<br /> + And before the King they stood.</p> +<p>Then up rose Ifald the King in rage,<br /> + And thus the King did cry:<br /> +“O, whence are come the ill-starr’d loons<br /> + Before my board I spy?”</p> +<p>Then answered the skinker of the King,<br /> + Who skinkèd wine and mead:<br /> +“Our sharp spears, if we ply them well,<br /> + Will drive them out with speed.”</p> +<p>It was Vitting Helfredson,<br /> + By the beard the skinker has ta’en;<br /> +He smote him a blow the ear below,<br /> + Which dashed out half his brain.</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>He flung the dead corse on the board,<br /> + And a merry jest had he:<br /> +“Who’ll taste,” said Vitting Helfredson,<br /> + “This precious roast for me?”</p> +<p>Then forth stepped Diderik Van Bern,<br /> + And, brandishing his glaive,<br /> +He hewed upon King Ifald’s head,<br /> + And him to the navel clave.</p> +<p>And forth stepped Vidrik Verlandson,<br /> + And round began to hew;<br /> +Heads and arms were smitten off<br /> + As round and round he flew.</p> +<p>In came King Ifald’s mother grey,<br /> + With an eldritch scream she came;<br /> +I tell to ye in verity<br /> + There ensued a wondrous game.</p> +<p>Vitting struck her with his sword,<br /> + A very fearful stroke;<br /> +But she kissed asunder the good sword,<br /> + Into pieces three it broke.</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>With a single kiss of the witch’s mouth<br /> + Was shivered the trusty sword;<br /> +Vitting the hag by the weazand seized,<br /> + Without a single word.</p> +<p>The beldame changed herself to a crane,<br /> + And flew to the clouds on high;<br /> +But Vitting donned a feather robe,<br /> + And pursued her through the sky.</p> +<p>They flew for a day, they flew for three,<br /> + Bold Vitting and the crane;<br /> +Then Vitting seized the crane by the legs,<br /> + And her body rent in twain.</p> +<p>Homeward now, with sword in hand,<br /> + The valiant comrades wended:<br /> +All the Birting kemps are dead,<br /> + And the adventure ended.</p> +<h2><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>THE SINGING MARINER<br /> +<i>A Ballad from the Spanish</i></h2> +<p>Who will ever have again,<br /> +On the land or on the main,<br /> +Such a chance as happen’d to<br /> +Count Arnaldos long ago.</p> +<p>With his falcon in his hand,<br /> +Forth he went along the strand;<br /> +There he saw a galley gay,<br /> +Briskly bearing for the bay.</p> +<p>Ask me not her name and trade,—<br /> +All the sails of silk were made;<br /> +He who steer’d the ship along<br /> +Raised his voice, and sang a song.</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>Sang a song whose magic force<br /> +Calm’d the breaker in its course;<br /> +While the fishes, sore amazed,<br /> +Left their holes and upward gazed.</p> +<p>And the fowl came flocking fast,<br /> +Round the summit of the mast;<br /> +Still he sang to wind and wave:<br /> +“God preserve my vessel brave!</p> +<p>“Guard her from the rocks that grow<br /> +’Mid the sullen deep below;<br /> +From the gust, and from the breeze,<br /> +Sweeping through Gibtarek’s seas.</p> +<p>“From the gulf of Venice too,<br /> +With its shoals and waters blue;<br /> +Where the mermaid chants her hymn,<br /> +Borne upon the billow’s brim.”</p> +<p>Forward stept Arnaldos bold,<br /> +Thus he spake, as I am told:<br /> +“Teach me, sailor, I entreat,<br /> +Yonder song that sounds so sweet.”</p> +<p><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>But the sailor shook his head,<br /> +Shook it thrice, and briefly said:<br /> +“Never will I teach the strain<br /> +But to him who ploughs the main.”</p> +<h2>YOUTH’S SONG IN SPRING</h2> +<p>O, scarcely is Spring a time of pure bliss,<br /> + He is wrong who full trust thereon layeth;<br /> +From many it may<br /> +Take sorrow away,<br /> + But to many it trouble conveyeth.</p> +<p>O, when every thing is as joyous in Spring,<br /> + As in heaven, that never is dreary;<br /> +’Tis a grievous case<br /> +If one mournful must pace,<br /> + And cannot be also merry!</p> +<h2><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>THE NIGHTINGALE<br /> +<i>Translated from the Danish</i></h2> +<p>In midnight’s calm hour the Nightingale sings<br /> + Of freedom, of love, and delight;<br /> +Come, haste to the grove where melody rings,<br /> + ’Tis Philomel’s notes that invite.<br /> +A fowler attentively follows her there,<br /> +Resolv’d for his victim to spread out a snare:<br /> +<i>Think</i>, <i>girls</i>, <i>of the Nightingale’s +fate</i>, <i>and beware</i>!</p> +<p>In ambush his nets he carefully brings,<br /> + Glad innocence feels no alarm;<br /> +Unguarded her flight—’midst danger she +wings—<br /> + And falls into sorrowful harm.<br /> +<!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>Alas! she is silent, and full of despair,<br /> +He glides away quick with his treasure so rare:<br /> +<i>Think</i>, <i>girls</i>, <i>of the Nightingale’s +fate</i>, <i>and beware</i>!</p> +<p>A beautiful cage adorns his fair prize,<br /> + In hope that for him she will sing;<br /> +But Freedom, that wafted her notes to the skies,<br /> + Bore Gladness away on its wing.<br /> +Thus you, Philomela, resemble the fair,<br /> +And we, we delight in the love that we share:<br /> +<i>O</i>, <i>think of the Nightingale’s fate</i>, <i>and +beware</i>!</p> +<h2>LINES</h2> +<p>Say from what mine took Love the yellow gold<br /> + To form those tresses? from what thorn-bush tore<br +/> + Those roses sleek? and from what summit bore<br /> +That stainless snow which seems no longer cold?</p> +<h2><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>MORNING SONG<br /> +<i>Nu rinder Solen op</i></h2> +<p>From Eastern quarters now<br /> + The sun’s up-wandering,<br /> +His rays on the rock’s brow<br /> + And hill’s side squandering.<br /> +Be glad, my soul! and sing amidst thy pleasure,<br /> + Fly from the house of dust,<br /> + Up with thy thanks, and trust<br /> +To heaven’s azure!</p> +<p>O, countless as the grains<br /> + Of sand so tiny,<br /> +Measureless as the main’s<br /> + Deep waters briny,<br /> +God’s mercy is, which He upon me showereth.<br /> + Each morning in my shell,<br /> + A grace immeasurable<br /> +To me down-poureth.</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>Thou best dost understand,<br /> + Lord God! my needing;<br /> +And placed is in Thy hand<br /> + My fortune’s speeding,<br /> +And Thou foresee’st what is for me most fitting.<br /> + Be still, then, O my soul!<br /> + To manage in the whole<br /> +Thy God permitting.</p> +<p>May fruit the land array,<br /> + And corn for eating!<br /> +May truth e’er make its way,<br /> + With justice meeting!<br /> +Give thou to me my share with every other,<br /> + ’Till down my staff I lay,<br /> + And from this world away<br /> +Wend to another!</p> +<h2>FROM THE FRENCH</h2> +<p>This world by fools is occupied,<br /> + And whom the sight of a fool displeases,<br /> +Within his chamber himself should hide,<br /> + And break his looking-glass to pieces.</p> +<h2><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>THE MORNING WALK</h2> +<p>To the beech grove with so sweet an air<br /> + It beckon’d me.<br /> +O, Earth! that never the cruel plough-share<br /> + Had furrow’d thee!<br /> +In their dark shelter the flowerets grew,<br /> + Bright to the eye,<br /> +And smil’d by my foot on the cloudlets blue,<br /> + Which deck’d the sky.</p> +<p>To the wood through a field I took my way;<br /> + There I could see<br /> +On the field an uppil’d stone-heap lay,<br /> + ’Twixt hillocks three;<br /> +<!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>So anciently grayly white it stood,<br /> + An oblong ring:<br /> +Here doubtless was held in the old time good<br /> + A royal Ting.</p> +<p>The royal stone, which there doth stand,<br /> + The Stol-king press’d,<br /> +With crown on head, and sceptre in hand,<br /> + In sables drest.<br /> +And every warrior solemnly pac’d<br /> + Peaceful in thought,<br /> +And down on his stone himself calmly plac’d—<br /> + No sword he brought.</p> +<p>The king’s house stood on yonder height,<br /> + With walls of power;<br /> +On yon had his daughter, the damsel bright,<br /> + Her maiden bower.<br /> +Upon the third the temple stood,<br /> + Through the North famed wide,<br /> +Where to Thor was offered the he-goat’s blood,<br /> + In reeking tide.</p> +<p><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>O, lovely field! and forest fair,<br /> + And meads grass-clad;<br /> +Her bride-bed Freya every where<br /> + Enamelled had.<br /> +The corn-flowers rose in azure band<br /> + From earthly cell;<br /> +Nought else could I do but stop and stand,<br /> + And greet them well.</p> +<p>Welcome on earth’s green breast again,<br /> + Ye flowerets dear!<br /> +In spring how charming ’mid the grain<br /> + Your heads ye rear.<br /> +Like stars ’midst lightning’s yellow ray<br /> + Ye shine red, blue:<br /> +O, how your summer aspect gay<br /> + Delights my view.</p> +<p>O poet! poet! silence keep,<br /> + God help thy case:<br /> +Our owner holds us sadly cheap,<br /> + And scorns our race.<br /> +<!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>Each time he sees, he calls us scum,<br /> + Or worthless tares;<br /> +Hell-weeds that but to vex him come<br /> + ’Midst his corn-ears.</p> +<p>The greatest grace done for our sake<br /> + In all his life,<br /> +Is from his pocket deep to take<br /> + His huge clasp knife;<br /> +And heavy handful then to cut,<br /> + ’Midst grumbling much—<br /> +Us with tobacco leaves to put<br /> + In seal-skin pouch.</p> +<p>He says, he says, that smoked this way,<br /> + We dross of the field,<br /> +To the world by chance, by poor chance, may<br /> + Some benefit yield;<br /> +But as for our beauty, our blue and red hues,<br /> + ’Tis folly indeed—<br /> +The mouth is his only test of use,<br /> + And that’s his creed.</p> +<p><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>O wretched mortals!—O wretched man!<br /> + O wretched crowd!—<br /> +No pleasures ye pluck—no pleasures ye plan<br /> + In life’s lone road:—<br /> +Whose eyes are blind to the glories great<br /> + Of the works of God;<br /> +And dream that the mouth is the nearest gate<br /> + To joy’s abode.</p> +<p>Come flowers! for we to each other belong,<br /> + Come graceful elf,<br /> +And around my lute in sympathy strong<br /> + Now wind thyself;<br /> +And quake as if mov’d by zephyr’s wing,<br /> + ’Neath the clang of the chord,<br /> +And a morning song with glee we’ll sing<br /> + To our Maker and Lord!</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 28--><a +name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span><span +class="smcap">London</span>:</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Printed for THOMAS J. 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