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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/28826-0.txt b/28826-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e6c27f --- /dev/null +++ b/28826-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,904 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his +Brothers, by Anonymous, Edited by Thomas Wise, Translated by George Borrow + + +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 Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers + and Other Ballads + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 15, 2009 [eBook #28826] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF DEIRDRA, KING BYRGE +AND HIS BROTHERS*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + THE SONG OF DEIRDRA + KING BYRGE AND HIS BROTHERS + AND + OTHER BALLADS + + + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1913 + + _Copyright in the United States of America_ + _by Houghton_, _Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_. + + + + +THE SONG OF DEIRDRA + + +Farewell, grey Albyn, much loved land, + I ne’er shall see thy hills again; +Upon those hills I oft would stand + And view the chase sweep o’er the plain. + +’Twas pleasant from their tops I ween + To see the stag that bounding ran; +And all the rout of hunters keen, + The sons of Usna in the van. + +The chiefs of Albyn feasted high, + Amidst them Usna’s children shone; +And Nasa kissed in secrecy + The daughter fair of high Dundron. + +To her a milk-white doe he sent, + With little fawn that frisked and played +And once to visit her he went, + As home from Inverness he strayed. + +The news was scarcely brought to me + When jealous rage inflamed my mind; +I took my boat and rushed to sea, + For death, for speedy death, inclined. + +But swiftly swimming at my stern + Came Ainlie bold and Ardan tall; +Those faithful striplings made me turn + And brought me back to Nasa’s hall. + +Then thrice he swore upon his arms, + His burnished arms, the foeman’s bane, +That he would never wake alarms + In this fond breast of mine again. + +Dundron’s fair daughter also swore, + And called to witness earth and sky, +That since his love for her was o’er + A maiden she would live and die. + +Ah did she know that slain in fight, + He wets with gore the Irish hill, +How great would be her moan this night, + But greater far would mine be still. + + + + +THE DIVER +A BALLAD TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN + + +“Where is the man who will dive for his King, +In the pool as it rushes with turbulent sweep? +A cup from this surf-beaten jetty I fling, +And he who will seek it below in the deep, +And will bring it again to the light of the day, +As the meed of his valour shall bear it away. + +“Now courage, my knights, and my warriors bold, +For, one, two, and three, and away it shall go—” +He toss’d, as he said it, the goblet of gold +Deep, deep in the howling abysses below.— +“Where is the hero who ventures to brave +The whirl of the pool, and the break of the wave?” + +The steel-coated lancemen, and nobles around, +Spoke not, but they trembled in silent surprise, +And pale they all stood on the cliff’s giddy bound, +And no one would venture to dive for the prize. +“Three times have I spoke, but no hero will spring +And dive for the goblet, and dive for the King.” + +But still they were silent and pale as before, +Till a brave son of Eirin, in venturous pride, +Dash’d forth from the lancemen’s trembling corps +And canted his helm, cast his mantle aside, +While spearman, and noble, and lady, and knight, +Gazed on the bold stripling in breathless affright. + +Unmoved by the thoughts of his horrible doom, +He mounted the cliff—and he paus’d on his leap, +For the waves which the pool had imbibed in its womb +Were spouted in thunder again from the deep,— +Yes! as they return’d, their report was as loud +As the peal when it bursts from the storm-riven cloud. + +It roared, and it drizzled, it hiss’d and it whirl’d, +And it bubbled like water when mingled with flame, +And columns of foam to the heaven were hurl’d, +And billow on billow tumultuously came; +It seem’d that the womb of the ocean would bear +Sea over sea to the uppermost air. + +It thundered again as the wave gathered slow, +And black from the drizzling foam as it fell, +The mouth of the fathomless tunnel below +Was seen like the pass to the regions of hell; +The waters roll round it, and gather and boom, +And then all at once disappear in the gloom. + +And now ere the waves had returned from the deep, +The youth wiped the sweat-drops which hung on his brows, +And he plunged—and the cataracts over him sweep, +And a shout from his terrified comrades arose; +And then there succeeded a horrible pause +For the whirlpool had clos’d its mysterious jaws. + +And stiller it grew on the watery waste, +In the womb of the ocean it bellow’d alone, +The knights said their Aves in terrified haste, +And crowded each pinnacle, jetty, and stone: +“The high-hearted stripling is whelm’d in the tide, +Ah! wail him,” was echoed from every side. + +“If the monarch had buried his crown in the pool +And said: ‘He shall wear it who brings it again,’ +I would not have been so insensate a fool +As to dive when all hope of returning were vain; +What heaven conceals in the gulfs of the deep, +Lies buried for ever, and there it must sleep.” + +Full many a burden the whirlpool had borne, +And spouted it forth on the drizzling surge, +But nought but a mast that was splinter’d and torn, +Or the hull of a vessel was seen to emerge; +But wider and wider it opens its jaws, +And louder it gurgles, and louder it draws. + +It drizzled, it thunder’d, it hiss’d and it whirl’d, +And it bubbled like water when mingled with flame, +And columns of foam to the heaven were hurl’d, +And flood upon flood from the deep tunnel came; +And then with a noise like the storm from the North, +The hellish eruption was vomited forth. + +But, ah! what is that on the wave’s foamy brim, +Disgorged with an ocean of wreck and of wood? +’Tis the snow-white arm and the shoulder of him +Who daringly dived for the glittering meed: +’Tis he, ’tis the stripling so hardy and bold, +Who swings in his left hand the goblet of gold. + +He draws a long breath as the breaker he leaves, +Then swims through the water with many a strain, +While all his companions exultingly heave +Their voices above the wild din of the main: +“’Tis he, O! ’tis he, from the horrible hole +The brave one has rescued his body and soul.” + +He reach’d the tall jetty, and kneeling he laid +The massy gold goblet in triumph and pride +At the foot of the monarch, who instantly made +A sign to his daughter who stood by his side: +She fill’d it with wine, and the youth with a spring +Received it, and quaff’d it, and turn’d to the King. + +“Long life to the monarch! how happy are they +Who breathe and exist in the sun’s rosy light, +But he who is doom’d in the ocean to stray, +Views nothing around him but horror and night; +Let no one henceforward be tempted like me +To pry in the secrets contain’d in the sea. + +“I felt myself seized, with the quickness of thought +The whirlpool entomb’d me in body and limb, +And billow on billow tumultuously brought +It’s cataracts o’er me; in vain did I swim, +For like a mere pebble with horrible sound +The force of the double stream twisted me round. + +“But God in his mercy, for to him alone +In the moment of danger I ever have clung, +Did bear me towards a projection of stone: +I seized it in transport, and round it I hung, +The goblet lay too on a corally ledge, +Which jutted just over the cataract’s edge. + +“And then I look’d downward, and horribly deep, +And twinkling sheen in the darkness below, +And though to the hearing it ever might sleep, +Yet still the eye clouded with terror might know, +That serpents and creatures that made my blood cool, +Were swimming and splashing about in the pool. + +“Ball’d up to a mass, in a moment uncoil’d, +They rose, and again disappear’d in the dark, +And down in the billows which over them boil’d +I saw a behemoth contend with a shark; +The sounds of their hideous duel awaken +The black-bellied whale, and the slumbering craken. + +“Still, still did I linger forlorn, and oppress’d +With a feeling of terror that curdled my blood; +Ah think of a human and sensible breast +Enclosed with the hideous shapes of the flood; +Still, still did I linger, but far from the reach +Of those that I knew would await on the beach. + +“Methought that a serpent towards me did creep, +And trailing behind him whole fathoms of length, +He open’d his jaws; and I dropp’d from the steep +Round which I had clung with expiring strength: +’Twas well that I did so, the stream bore me up, +And here is thy servant, and there is the cup.” + +He then was retiring, a look from the King +Detain’d him: “My hero, the cup is thine own, +’Tis richly thy meed, but I’ll give thee this ring, +Beset with a diamond and chrysolite stone, +If again thou wilt dive, and discover to me +What’s hid in the deepest abyss of the sea.” + +The daughter heard that with compassionate thought, +Quick, quick to the feet of the monarch she flew: +“O father, desist from this horrible sport, +He has done what no other would venture to do, +If the life of a creature thou fain must destroy, +Let a noble take place of this generous boy.” + +The monarch has taken the cup in his hand, +And tumbled it down in the bellowing sea: +“And if thou canst bring it again to the strand, +The first, and the best of my knights thou shalt be; +If that will not tempt thee, this maid thou shalt wed, +And share as a husband the joys of her bed.” + +Then the pride of old Eirin arose in his look, +And it flash’d from his eye-balls courageously keen, +One glance on the beautiful vision he took, +And he saw her change colour, and sink on the green. +“By the stool of Saint Peter the prize I’ll obtain;” +He shouted, and instantly dived in the main. + +The waters sunk down, and a thundering peal +Announced that the time of their sojourn was o’er; +Each eye is cast downward in terrified zeal, +As forth from the tunnel the cataracts pour. +The waters rush up, and the waters subside; +But ah! the bold diver remains in the tide. + + + + +KING BYRGE AND HIS BROTHERS + + +Dame Ingeborg three brave brothers could boast, +For the crown of Sweden their lives they lost. + +The nobles to Sweden would fain away, +Dame Ingeborg bade them at home to stay. + +Dame Ingeborg stood at Helsingborg’s gate, +“Dear brothers, go not, I beg and entreat!” + +Then with one voice the brothers cried: +“We’ve long for our realms paternal sighed. + +“And we have too long with thee remained, +Our hearts within us are sorely pained.” + +“Five days with me, dear brothers, wait, +Whilst I my dreadful dream relate. + +“Methought that your mantles were of lead, +With them, dear brothers, ye were arrayed. + +“They were fast tied about your throats, +And treachery towards ye that denotes.” + +To Dame Ingeborg’s rede no ear they lent, +But to Sweden that very same day they went. + +And when they had won to the sand beach white, +There met them Brouk, that faithless knight. + +“Ye brothers both, thrice welcome be, +Ye’ll come and drink Yule with His Majesty?” + +The nobles repair to Nykoping street, +There they a deceitful counsel meet. + +“Now off your bodies your armour lay, +And hie to the castle in court dress gay.” + +In at the doorway the nobles stepped, +Up to receive them the monarch leapt. + +“My dear brothers both, thrice welcome be, +Will ye drink Yule with our Majesty?” + +With his brothers down sate King Byrge to food, +Much serious discourse betwixt them ensued. + +“Now welcome, my brothers, thrice welcome I say, +May I not alone the country sway?” + +“May God to our brother grant happiness, +But he cannot alone the land to possess.” + +The nobles they ate and they drank for a trice, +Brouk has discovered another device: + +“What will ye now do, ye worshipful knights, +Have drinking and dancing for ye delights?” + +Then they danced out and danced in with glee, +And Brouk the clear wine poured so free. + +On the floor stood the nobles and ’gan to sing, +Whilst Brouk proceeded to plot with the King. + +Then unto his brother Duke Valdemar said: +“O Erik, we drink too much wine, I’m afraid. + +“Be we on our guard ’gainst Brouk’s pleasantries, +He knoweth all manner of villanies.” + +Duke Erik held up his good right hand: +“Shall we fear aught in our fatherland? + +“We are come with a safety assurance fair, +And of no quarrel are we aware.” + +They drank and they danced till the day had ta’en flight, +Then illumined was torch and big wax light. + +To hie now to bed the nobles desired, +And repose on the bolsters their bodies tired. + +Then in to the prison tower they were led, +The King himself went in his cloak of red. + +They thought that in jest the thing was done, +’Till he slammed the doors to every one. + +Manlike fought Erik and scorned to yield, +As long as he’d sword or a post to wield. + +Broke sword! broke post! they no more could defend! +Into prison they naked were forced to wend. + +The noble brothers suffered sore, +From frost and from cold and from hunger much more. + +“We’ll give thee, Brouk, the gold so red, +If thou’lt give us but water and bread.” + +“Ye shall not obtain in Sweden here, +Or bread or water your hearts to cheer.” + +“Our dear brother’s wife we are confident, +To let us be starved will ne’er consent. + +“We know the Queen has a pitying breast, +She will straw send us whereon to rest. + +“The hunger within us is sharp and strong, +Our hearts must certainly burst ere long.” + +Then Brouk at that word so wrathful grew, +The keys he into the salt fiord threw. + +Twas dismal to hear how with hunger they roared, +Each others shoulders they devoured. + +And there is yet more woe to relate, +The flesh from the sides of each other they ate. + +Much misery and woe there was that tide, +In each other’s arms the brothers died. + +And thus things stood till five months were fled, +King Byrge came home from the war-field red. + +“Now whither departed are brothers mine? +Why didst thou not give them their fill of wine?” + +Then answered straight the little child: +“Brouk into the tower the nobles beguiled.” + +King Byrge peeped in the window through, +The state of the brothers was piteous to view. + +“Now hear thou, Brouk, straight to me declare, +Where the prison keys are I gave to thy care?” + +“May the blessed Christ my soul ne’er save, +If I cast them not in the briny wave.” + +“O Brouk, shame fall thy head upon, +So evilly towards me thou has done. + +“Thou fool and villain! I’ve lost thereby +The keys to Sweden’s sovereignty.” + +“If I have betrayed thy brothers twain, +Thou mayest alone over Sweden reign.” + +That deed such grief to the Dukes’ friends gave, +And that grief they carried to the grave. + +With his Queen King Byrge must fly from his throne, +Beheaded was Magnus, his beautiful son. + +But Brouk to the infamous wheel was consigned, +May all such traitors a like end find! + +When sovereigns many there are to a land, +You’ll never see them go hand in hand. + +The one ’fore the other must certainly fall, +Not seldom destruction comes o’er them all. + +Though fraud and deceit for a time have success, +At length on their owner they’ll bring distress. + + + + +TURKISH HYMN TO MAHOMET + + +O envoy of Allah, to thee be salaam, +With my whole heart I love thee, O blest be thy name. +At the high throne of God thou for sinners dost plead +Who forgives for thy sake each iniquitous deed. +O Prophet of Allah, for all that I’ve done +Of rebellion against Him, tis thou must atone. +For Thou art the one intercessor, Thou, Thou— +The prince of the prophets to whom the rest bow. +In the world’s Judgment Day when all nations are met, +When good deeds and bad in the balance are set, +Intercession I hope for, from Thee, only Thee, +So breathe intercession for me, wretched me. +’Tis true my misdeeds I’m unable to count, +But I know that thy goodness exceeds their amount. +Like one who’s defunct I a long time have been, +My body is drowned in an ocean of sin. +My rebellions they be of so dreadful a die +That to wend to my Maker no courage have I. +Now save I in dust at thy feet myself throw, +And thy footstool I strike with my agonis’d brow; +And save thou for me dost benignantly speak, +What for me will remain but despairing to shriek? +For unless I thy kind intercession procure, +My soul with the Kaffirs will torments endure. +But I trust thou wilt that for thy servant employ’ +And that rest I shall gain, and unspeakable joy. +Unto thee without end shall be praises and prayers, +And also to them, thy disciples and heirs, +The voyagers noble who trod the true road, +And to others the path of salvation who show’d, +The four eldest friends of exalted degree +Who of our religion the four pillars be. +First of all the good King of the Kingdom of Grace, +The just Abon Bekir with truth in his face; +The next the stout lion so bravely who warr’d, +The Lyon of the Mussulman, Omar my Lord. +The third a high Emir, renowned midst our clan, +The child of the moment, the Emir Othman. +The fourth of the pillars, my Lord Ali dear, +Inspector acute of the dark and the clear. +Then the light of our eyes, the delectable twain, +The Lovely Prince Hassan, the Emir Hoseyn. +Nor unnoticed by men shall be suffered to pass +Those excellent uncles, Hanozah and Abbess. +Unto each of that band be a thousand salaams, +An bless’d through all ages be each of their names. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. 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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 Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers + and Other Ballads + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 15, 2009 [eBook #28826] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF DEIRDRA, KING BYRGE +AND HIS BROTHERS*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>THE SONG OF DEIRDRA<br /> +<span class="smcap">king byrge and his brothers</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">and</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">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">1913</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 SONG OF DEIRDRA</h2> +<p>Farewell, grey Albyn, much loved land,<br /> + I ne’er shall see thy hills again;<br /> +Upon those hills I oft would stand<br /> + And view the chase sweep o’er the plain.</p> +<p>’Twas pleasant from their tops I ween<br /> + To see the stag that bounding ran;<br /> +And all the rout of hunters keen,<br /> + The sons of Usna in the van.</p> +<p>The chiefs of Albyn feasted high,<br /> + Amidst them Usna’s children shone;<br /> +And Nasa kissed in secrecy<br /> + The daughter fair of high Dundron.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>To her a milk-white doe he sent,<br /> + With little fawn that frisked and played<br /> +And once to visit her he went,<br /> + As home from Inverness he strayed.</p> +<p>The news was scarcely brought to me<br /> + When jealous rage inflamed my mind;<br /> +I took my boat and rushed to sea,<br /> + For death, for speedy death, inclined.</p> +<p>But swiftly swimming at my stern<br /> + Came Ainlie bold and Ardan tall;<br /> +Those faithful striplings made me turn<br /> + And brought me back to Nasa’s hall.</p> +<p>Then thrice he swore upon his arms,<br /> + His burnished arms, the foeman’s bane,<br /> +That he would never wake alarms<br /> + In this fond breast of mine again.</p> +<p>Dundron’s fair daughter also swore,<br /> + And called to witness earth and sky,<br /> +That since his love for her was o’er<br /> + A maiden she would live and die.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>Ah did she know that slain in fight,<br /> + He wets with gore the Irish hill,<br /> +How great would be her moan this night,<br /> + But greater far would mine be still.</p> +<h2><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>THE DIVER<br /> +<span class="smcap">a ballad translated from the +german</span></h2> +<p>“Where is the man who will dive for his King,<br /> +In the pool as it rushes with turbulent sweep?<br /> +A cup from this surf-beaten jetty I fling,<br /> +And he who will seek it below in the deep,<br /> +And will bring it again to the light of the day,<br /> +As the meed of his valour shall bear it away.</p> +<p>“Now courage, my knights, and my warriors bold,<br /> +For, one, two, and three, and away it shall go—”<br +/> +He toss’d, as he said it, the goblet of gold<br /> +Deep, deep in the howling abysses below.—<br /> +“Where is the hero who ventures to brave<br /> +The whirl of the pool, and the break of the wave?”</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>The steel-coated lancemen, and nobles around,<br /> +Spoke not, but they trembled in silent surprise,<br /> +And pale they all stood on the cliff’s giddy bound,<br /> +And no one would venture to dive for the prize.<br /> +“Three times have I spoke, but no hero will spring<br /> +And dive for the goblet, and dive for the King.”</p> +<p>But still they were silent and pale as before,<br /> +Till a brave son of Eirin, in venturous pride,<br /> +Dash’d forth from the lancemen’s trembling corps<br +/> +And canted his helm, cast his mantle aside,<br /> +While spearman, and noble, and lady, and knight,<br /> +Gazed on the bold stripling in breathless affright.</p> +<p>Unmoved by the thoughts of his horrible doom,<br /> +He mounted the cliff—and he paus’d on his leap,<br /> +For the waves which the pool had imbibed in its womb<br /> +Were spouted in thunder again from the deep,—<br /> +Yes! as they return’d, their report was as loud<br /> +As the peal when it bursts from the storm-riven cloud.</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>It roared, and it drizzled, it hiss’d and it +whirl’d,<br /> +And it bubbled like water when mingled with flame,<br /> +And columns of foam to the heaven were hurl’d,<br /> +And billow on billow tumultuously came;<br /> +It seem’d that the womb of the ocean would bear<br /> +Sea over sea to the uppermost air.</p> +<p>It thundered again as the wave gathered slow,<br /> +And black from the drizzling foam as it fell,<br /> +The mouth of the fathomless tunnel below<br /> +Was seen like the pass to the regions of hell;<br /> +The waters roll round it, and gather and boom,<br /> +And then all at once disappear in the gloom.</p> +<p>And now ere the waves had returned from the deep,<br /> +The youth wiped the sweat-drops which hung on his brows,<br /> +And he plunged—and the cataracts over him sweep,<br /> +And a shout from his terrified comrades arose;<br /> +And then there succeeded a horrible pause<br /> +For the whirlpool had clos’d its mysterious jaws.</p> +<p><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>And stiller it grew on the watery waste,<br /> +In the womb of the ocean it bellow’d alone,<br /> +The knights said their Aves in terrified haste,<br /> +And crowded each pinnacle, jetty, and stone:<br /> +“The high-hearted stripling is whelm’d in the +tide,<br /> +Ah! wail him,” was echoed from every side.</p> +<p>“If the monarch had buried his crown in the pool<br /> +And said: ‘He shall wear it who brings it again,’<br +/> +I would not have been so insensate a fool<br /> +As to dive when all hope of returning were vain;<br /> +What heaven conceals in the gulfs of the deep,<br /> +Lies buried for ever, and there it must sleep.”</p> +<p>Full many a burden the whirlpool had borne,<br /> +And spouted it forth on the drizzling surge,<br /> +But nought but a mast that was splinter’d and torn,<br /> +Or the hull of a vessel was seen to emerge;<br /> +But wider and wider it opens its jaws,<br /> +And louder it gurgles, and louder it draws.</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>It drizzled, it thunder’d, it hiss’d and it +whirl’d,<br /> +And it bubbled like water when mingled with flame,<br /> +And columns of foam to the heaven were hurl’d,<br /> +And flood upon flood from the deep tunnel came;<br /> +And then with a noise like the storm from the North,<br /> +The hellish eruption was vomited forth.</p> +<p>But, ah! what is that on the wave’s foamy brim,<br /> +Disgorged with an ocean of wreck and of wood?<br /> +’Tis the snow-white arm and the shoulder of him<br /> +Who daringly dived for the glittering meed:<br /> +’Tis he, ’tis the stripling so hardy and bold,<br /> +Who swings in his left hand the goblet of gold.</p> +<p>He draws a long breath as the breaker he leaves,<br /> +Then swims through the water with many a strain,<br /> +While all his companions exultingly heave<br /> +Their voices above the wild din of the main:<br /> +“’Tis he, O! ’tis he, from the horrible hole<br +/> +The brave one has rescued his body and soul.”</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>He reach’d the tall jetty, and kneeling he laid<br +/> +The massy gold goblet in triumph and pride<br /> +At the foot of the monarch, who instantly made<br /> +A sign to his daughter who stood by his side:<br /> +She fill’d it with wine, and the youth with a spring<br /> +Received it, and quaff’d it, and turn’d to the +King.</p> +<p>“Long life to the monarch! how happy are they<br /> +Who breathe and exist in the sun’s rosy light,<br /> +But he who is doom’d in the ocean to stray,<br /> +Views nothing around him but horror and night;<br /> +Let no one henceforward be tempted like me<br /> +To pry in the secrets contain’d in the sea.</p> +<p>“I felt myself seized, with the quickness of thought<br +/> +The whirlpool entomb’d me in body and limb,<br /> +And billow on billow tumultuously brought<br /> +It’s cataracts o’er me; in vain did I swim,<br /> +For like a mere pebble with horrible sound<br /> +The force of the double stream twisted me round.</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>“But God in his mercy, for to him alone<br /> +In the moment of danger I ever have clung,<br /> +Did bear me towards a projection of stone:<br /> +I seized it in transport, and round it I hung,<br /> +The goblet lay too on a corally ledge,<br /> +Which jutted just over the cataract’s edge.</p> +<p>“And then I look’d downward, and horribly deep,<br +/> +And twinkling sheen in the darkness below,<br /> +And though to the hearing it ever might sleep,<br /> +Yet still the eye clouded with terror might know,<br /> +That serpents and creatures that made my blood cool,<br /> +Were swimming and splashing about in the pool.</p> +<p>“Ball’d up to a mass, in a moment +uncoil’d,<br /> +They rose, and again disappear’d in the dark,<br /> +And down in the billows which over them boil’d<br /> +I saw a behemoth contend with a shark;<br /> +The sounds of their hideous duel awaken<br /> +The black-bellied whale, and the slumbering craken.</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>“Still, still did I linger forlorn, and +oppress’d<br /> +With a feeling of terror that curdled my blood;<br /> +Ah think of a human and sensible breast<br /> +Enclosed with the hideous shapes of the flood;<br /> +Still, still did I linger, but far from the reach<br /> +Of those that I knew would await on the beach.</p> +<p>“Methought that a serpent towards me did creep,<br /> +And trailing behind him whole fathoms of length,<br /> +He open’d his jaws; and I dropp’d from the steep<br +/> +Round which I had clung with expiring strength:<br /> +’Twas well that I did so, the stream bore me up,<br /> +And here is thy servant, and there is the cup.”</p> +<p>He then was retiring, a look from the King<br /> +Detain’d him: “My hero, the cup is thine own,<br /> +’Tis richly thy meed, but I’ll give thee this +ring,<br /> +Beset with a diamond and chrysolite stone,<br /> +If again thou wilt dive, and discover to me<br /> +What’s hid in the deepest abyss of the sea.”</p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>The daughter heard that with compassionate thought,<br +/> +Quick, quick to the feet of the monarch she flew:<br /> +“O father, desist from this horrible sport,<br /> +He has done what no other would venture to do,<br /> +If the life of a creature thou fain must destroy,<br /> +Let a noble take place of this generous boy.”</p> +<p>The monarch has taken the cup in his hand,<br /> +And tumbled it down in the bellowing sea:<br /> +“And if thou canst bring it again to the strand,<br /> +The first, and the best of my knights thou shalt be;<br /> +If that will not tempt thee, this maid thou shalt wed,<br /> +And share as a husband the joys of her bed.”</p> +<p>Then the pride of old Eirin arose in his look,<br /> +And it flash’d from his eye-balls courageously keen,<br /> +One glance on the beautiful vision he took,<br /> +And he saw her change colour, and sink on the green.<br /> +“By the stool of Saint Peter the prize I’ll +obtain;”<br /> +He shouted, and instantly dived in the main.</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>The waters sunk down, and a thundering peal<br /> +Announced that the time of their sojourn was o’er;<br /> +Each eye is cast downward in terrified zeal,<br /> +As forth from the tunnel the cataracts pour.<br /> +The waters rush up, and the waters subside;<br /> +But ah! the bold diver remains in the tide.</p> +<h2><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>KING BYRGE AND HIS BROTHERS</h2> +<p>Dame Ingeborg three brave brothers could boast,<br /> +For the crown of Sweden their lives they lost.</p> +<p>The nobles to Sweden would fain away,<br /> +Dame Ingeborg bade them at home to stay.</p> +<p>Dame Ingeborg stood at Helsingborg’s gate,<br /> +“Dear brothers, go not, I beg and entreat!”</p> +<p>Then with one voice the brothers cried:<br /> +“We’ve long for our realms paternal sighed.</p> +<p>“And we have too long with thee remained,<br /> +Our hearts within us are sorely pained.”</p> +<p>“Five days with me, dear brothers, wait,<br /> +Whilst I my dreadful dream relate.</p> +<p><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>“Methought that your mantles were of lead,<br /> +With them, dear brothers, ye were arrayed.</p> +<p>“They were fast tied about your throats,<br /> +And treachery towards ye that denotes.”</p> +<p>To Dame Ingeborg’s rede no ear they lent,<br /> +But to Sweden that very same day they went.</p> +<p>And when they had won to the sand beach white,<br /> +There met them Brouk, that faithless knight.</p> +<p>“Ye brothers both, thrice welcome be,<br /> +Ye’ll come and drink Yule with His Majesty?”</p> +<p>The nobles repair to Nykoping street,<br /> +There they a deceitful counsel meet.</p> +<p>“Now off your bodies your armour lay,<br /> +And hie to the castle in court dress gay.”</p> +<p>In at the doorway the nobles stepped,<br /> +Up to receive them the monarch leapt.</p> +<p>“My dear brothers both, thrice welcome be,<br /> +Will ye drink Yule with our Majesty?”</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>With his brothers down sate King Byrge to food,<br /> +Much serious discourse betwixt them ensued.</p> +<p>“Now welcome, my brothers, thrice welcome I say,<br /> +May I not alone the country sway?”</p> +<p>“May God to our brother grant happiness,<br /> +But he cannot alone the land to possess.”</p> +<p>The nobles they ate and they drank for a trice,<br /> +Brouk has discovered another device:</p> +<p>“What will ye now do, ye worshipful knights,<br /> +Have drinking and dancing for ye delights?”</p> +<p>Then they danced out and danced in with glee,<br /> +And Brouk the clear wine poured so free.</p> +<p>On the floor stood the nobles and ’gan to sing,<br /> +Whilst Brouk proceeded to plot with the King.</p> +<p>Then unto his brother Duke Valdemar said:<br /> +“O Erik, we drink too much wine, I’m afraid.</p> +<p><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>“Be we on our guard ’gainst Brouk’s +pleasantries,<br /> +He knoweth all manner of villanies.”</p> +<p>Duke Erik held up his good right hand:<br /> +“Shall we fear aught in our fatherland?</p> +<p>“We are come with a safety assurance fair,<br /> +And of no quarrel are we aware.”</p> +<p>They drank and they danced till the day had ta’en +flight,<br /> +Then illumined was torch and big wax light.</p> +<p>To hie now to bed the nobles desired,<br /> +And repose on the bolsters their bodies tired.</p> +<p>Then in to the prison tower they were led,<br /> +The King himself went in his cloak of red.</p> +<p>They thought that in jest the thing was done,<br /> +’Till he slammed the doors to every one.</p> +<p>Manlike fought Erik and scorned to yield,<br /> +As long as he’d sword or a post to wield.</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>Broke sword! broke post! they no more could defend!<br +/> +Into prison they naked were forced to wend.</p> +<p>The noble brothers suffered sore,<br /> +From frost and from cold and from hunger much more.</p> +<p>“We’ll give thee, Brouk, the gold so red,<br /> +If thou’lt give us but water and bread.”</p> +<p>“Ye shall not obtain in Sweden here,<br /> +Or bread or water your hearts to cheer.”</p> +<p>“Our dear brother’s wife we are confident,<br /> +To let us be starved will ne’er consent.</p> +<p>“We know the Queen has a pitying breast,<br /> +She will straw send us whereon to rest.</p> +<p>“The hunger within us is sharp and strong,<br /> +Our hearts must certainly burst ere long.”</p> +<p>Then Brouk at that word so wrathful grew,<br /> +The keys he into the salt fiord threw.</p> +<p><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>Twas dismal to hear how with hunger they roared,<br /> +Each others shoulders they devoured.</p> +<p>And there is yet more woe to relate,<br /> +The flesh from the sides of each other they ate.</p> +<p>Much misery and woe there was that tide,<br /> +In each other’s arms the brothers died.</p> +<p>And thus things stood till five months were fled,<br /> +King Byrge came home from the war-field red.</p> +<p>“Now whither departed are brothers mine?<br /> +Why didst thou not give them their fill of wine?”</p> +<p>Then answered straight the little child:<br /> +“Brouk into the tower the nobles beguiled.”</p> +<p>King Byrge peeped in the window through,<br /> +The state of the brothers was piteous to view.</p> +<p>“Now hear thou, Brouk, straight to me declare,<br /> +Where the prison keys are I gave to thy care?”</p> +<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>“May the blessed Christ my soul ne’er +save,<br /> +If I cast them not in the briny wave.”</p> +<p>“O Brouk, shame fall thy head upon,<br /> +So evilly towards me thou has done.</p> +<p>“Thou fool and villain! I’ve lost thereby<br +/> +The keys to Sweden’s sovereignty.”</p> +<p>“If I have betrayed thy brothers twain,<br /> +Thou mayest alone over Sweden reign.”</p> +<p>That deed such grief to the Dukes’ friends gave,<br /> +And that grief they carried to the grave.</p> +<p>With his Queen King Byrge must fly from his throne,<br /> +Beheaded was Magnus, his beautiful son.</p> +<p>But Brouk to the infamous wheel was consigned,<br /> +May all such traitors a like end find!</p> +<p>When sovereigns many there are to a land,<br /> +You’ll never see them go hand in hand.</p> +<p><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>The one ’fore the other must certainly fall,<br /> +Not seldom destruction comes o’er them all.</p> +<p>Though fraud and deceit for a time have success,<br /> +At length on their owner they’ll bring distress.</p> +<h2><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>TURKISH HYMN TO MAHOMET</h2> +<p>O envoy of Allah, to thee be salaam,<br /> +With my whole heart I love thee, O blest be thy name.<br /> +At the high throne of God thou for sinners dost plead<br /> +Who forgives for thy sake each iniquitous deed.<br /> +O Prophet of Allah, for all that I’ve done<br /> +Of rebellion against Him, tis thou must atone.<br /> +For Thou art the one intercessor, Thou, Thou—<br /> +The prince of the prophets to whom the rest bow.<br /> +In the world’s Judgment Day when all nations are met,<br /> +When good deeds and bad in the balance are set,<br /> +Intercession I hope for, from Thee, only Thee,<br /> +So breathe intercession for me, wretched me.<br /> +<!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>’Tis true my misdeeds I’m unable to +count,<br /> +But I know that thy goodness exceeds their amount.<br /> +Like one who’s defunct I a long time have been,<br /> +My body is drowned in an ocean of sin.<br /> +My rebellions they be of so dreadful a die<br /> +That to wend to my Maker no courage have I.<br /> +Now save I in dust at thy feet myself throw,<br /> +And thy footstool I strike with my agonis’d brow;<br /> +And save thou for me dost benignantly speak,<br /> +What for me will remain but despairing to shriek?<br /> +For unless I thy kind intercession procure,<br /> +My soul with the Kaffirs will torments endure.<br /> +But I trust thou wilt that for thy servant employ’<br /> +And that rest I shall gain, and unspeakable joy.<br /> +Unto thee without end shall be praises and prayers,<br /> +And also to them, thy disciples and heirs,<br /> +The voyagers noble who trod the true road,<br /> +And to others the path of salvation who show’d,<br /> +The four eldest friends of exalted degree<br /> +Who of our religion the four pillars be.<br /> +<!-- page 28--><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>First of all the good King of the Kingdom of Grace,<br +/> +The just Abon Bekir with truth in his face;<br /> +The next the stout lion so bravely who warr’d,<br /> +The Lyon of the Mussulman, Omar my Lord.<br /> +The third a high Emir, renowned midst our clan,<br /> +The child of the moment, the Emir Othman.<br /> +The fourth of the pillars, my Lord Ali dear,<br /> +Inspector acute of the dark and the clear.<br /> +Then the light of our eyes, the delectable twain,<br /> +The Lovely Prince Hassan, the Emir Hoseyn.<br /> +Nor unnoticed by men shall be suffered to pass<br /> +Those excellent uncles, Hanozah and Abbess.<br /> +Unto each of that band be a thousand salaams,<br /> +An bless’d through all ages be each of their names.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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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 Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers + and Other Ballads + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 15, 2009 [eBook #28826] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF DEIRDRA, KING BYRGE +AND HIS BROTHERS*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + THE SONG OF DEIRDRA + KING BYRGE AND HIS BROTHERS + AND + OTHER BALLADS + + + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1913 + + _Copyright in the United States of America_ + _by Houghton_, _Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_. + + + + +THE SONG OF DEIRDRA + + +Farewell, grey Albyn, much loved land, + I ne'er shall see thy hills again; +Upon those hills I oft would stand + And view the chase sweep o'er the plain. + +'Twas pleasant from their tops I ween + To see the stag that bounding ran; +And all the rout of hunters keen, + The sons of Usna in the van. + +The chiefs of Albyn feasted high, + Amidst them Usna's children shone; +And Nasa kissed in secrecy + The daughter fair of high Dundron. + +To her a milk-white doe he sent, + With little fawn that frisked and played +And once to visit her he went, + As home from Inverness he strayed. + +The news was scarcely brought to me + When jealous rage inflamed my mind; +I took my boat and rushed to sea, + For death, for speedy death, inclined. + +But swiftly swimming at my stern + Came Ainlie bold and Ardan tall; +Those faithful striplings made me turn + And brought me back to Nasa's hall. + +Then thrice he swore upon his arms, + His burnished arms, the foeman's bane, +That he would never wake alarms + In this fond breast of mine again. + +Dundron's fair daughter also swore, + And called to witness earth and sky, +That since his love for her was o'er + A maiden she would live and die. + +Ah did she know that slain in fight, + He wets with gore the Irish hill, +How great would be her moan this night, + But greater far would mine be still. + + + + +THE DIVER +A BALLAD TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN + + +"Where is the man who will dive for his King, +In the pool as it rushes with turbulent sweep? +A cup from this surf-beaten jetty I fling, +And he who will seek it below in the deep, +And will bring it again to the light of the day, +As the meed of his valour shall bear it away. + +"Now courage, my knights, and my warriors bold, +For, one, two, and three, and away it shall go--" +He toss'd, as he said it, the goblet of gold +Deep, deep in the howling abysses below.-- +"Where is the hero who ventures to brave +The whirl of the pool, and the break of the wave?" + +The steel-coated lancemen, and nobles around, +Spoke not, but they trembled in silent surprise, +And pale they all stood on the cliff's giddy bound, +And no one would venture to dive for the prize. +"Three times have I spoke, but no hero will spring +And dive for the goblet, and dive for the King." + +But still they were silent and pale as before, +Till a brave son of Eirin, in venturous pride, +Dash'd forth from the lancemen's trembling corps +And canted his helm, cast his mantle aside, +While spearman, and noble, and lady, and knight, +Gazed on the bold stripling in breathless affright. + +Unmoved by the thoughts of his horrible doom, +He mounted the cliff--and he paus'd on his leap, +For the waves which the pool had imbibed in its womb +Were spouted in thunder again from the deep,-- +Yes! as they return'd, their report was as loud +As the peal when it bursts from the storm-riven cloud. + +It roared, and it drizzled, it hiss'd and it whirl'd, +And it bubbled like water when mingled with flame, +And columns of foam to the heaven were hurl'd, +And billow on billow tumultuously came; +It seem'd that the womb of the ocean would bear +Sea over sea to the uppermost air. + +It thundered again as the wave gathered slow, +And black from the drizzling foam as it fell, +The mouth of the fathomless tunnel below +Was seen like the pass to the regions of hell; +The waters roll round it, and gather and boom, +And then all at once disappear in the gloom. + +And now ere the waves had returned from the deep, +The youth wiped the sweat-drops which hung on his brows, +And he plunged--and the cataracts over him sweep, +And a shout from his terrified comrades arose; +And then there succeeded a horrible pause +For the whirlpool had clos'd its mysterious jaws. + +And stiller it grew on the watery waste, +In the womb of the ocean it bellow'd alone, +The knights said their Aves in terrified haste, +And crowded each pinnacle, jetty, and stone: +"The high-hearted stripling is whelm'd in the tide, +Ah! wail him," was echoed from every side. + +"If the monarch had buried his crown in the pool +And said: 'He shall wear it who brings it again,' +I would not have been so insensate a fool +As to dive when all hope of returning were vain; +What heaven conceals in the gulfs of the deep, +Lies buried for ever, and there it must sleep." + +Full many a burden the whirlpool had borne, +And spouted it forth on the drizzling surge, +But nought but a mast that was splinter'd and torn, +Or the hull of a vessel was seen to emerge; +But wider and wider it opens its jaws, +And louder it gurgles, and louder it draws. + +It drizzled, it thunder'd, it hiss'd and it whirl'd, +And it bubbled like water when mingled with flame, +And columns of foam to the heaven were hurl'd, +And flood upon flood from the deep tunnel came; +And then with a noise like the storm from the North, +The hellish eruption was vomited forth. + +But, ah! what is that on the wave's foamy brim, +Disgorged with an ocean of wreck and of wood? +'Tis the snow-white arm and the shoulder of him +Who daringly dived for the glittering meed: +'Tis he, 'tis the stripling so hardy and bold, +Who swings in his left hand the goblet of gold. + +He draws a long breath as the breaker he leaves, +Then swims through the water with many a strain, +While all his companions exultingly heave +Their voices above the wild din of the main: +"'Tis he, O! 'tis he, from the horrible hole +The brave one has rescued his body and soul." + +He reach'd the tall jetty, and kneeling he laid +The massy gold goblet in triumph and pride +At the foot of the monarch, who instantly made +A sign to his daughter who stood by his side: +She fill'd it with wine, and the youth with a spring +Received it, and quaff'd it, and turn'd to the King. + +"Long life to the monarch! how happy are they +Who breathe and exist in the sun's rosy light, +But he who is doom'd in the ocean to stray, +Views nothing around him but horror and night; +Let no one henceforward be tempted like me +To pry in the secrets contain'd in the sea. + +"I felt myself seized, with the quickness of thought +The whirlpool entomb'd me in body and limb, +And billow on billow tumultuously brought +It's cataracts o'er me; in vain did I swim, +For like a mere pebble with horrible sound +The force of the double stream twisted me round. + +"But God in his mercy, for to him alone +In the moment of danger I ever have clung, +Did bear me towards a projection of stone: +I seized it in transport, and round it I hung, +The goblet lay too on a corally ledge, +Which jutted just over the cataract's edge. + +"And then I look'd downward, and horribly deep, +And twinkling sheen in the darkness below, +And though to the hearing it ever might sleep, +Yet still the eye clouded with terror might know, +That serpents and creatures that made my blood cool, +Were swimming and splashing about in the pool. + +"Ball'd up to a mass, in a moment uncoil'd, +They rose, and again disappear'd in the dark, +And down in the billows which over them boil'd +I saw a behemoth contend with a shark; +The sounds of their hideous duel awaken +The black-bellied whale, and the slumbering craken. + +"Still, still did I linger forlorn, and oppress'd +With a feeling of terror that curdled my blood; +Ah think of a human and sensible breast +Enclosed with the hideous shapes of the flood; +Still, still did I linger, but far from the reach +Of those that I knew would await on the beach. + +"Methought that a serpent towards me did creep, +And trailing behind him whole fathoms of length, +He open'd his jaws; and I dropp'd from the steep +Round which I had clung with expiring strength: +'Twas well that I did so, the stream bore me up, +And here is thy servant, and there is the cup." + +He then was retiring, a look from the King +Detain'd him: "My hero, the cup is thine own, +'Tis richly thy meed, but I'll give thee this ring, +Beset with a diamond and chrysolite stone, +If again thou wilt dive, and discover to me +What's hid in the deepest abyss of the sea." + +The daughter heard that with compassionate thought, +Quick, quick to the feet of the monarch she flew: +"O father, desist from this horrible sport, +He has done what no other would venture to do, +If the life of a creature thou fain must destroy, +Let a noble take place of this generous boy." + +The monarch has taken the cup in his hand, +And tumbled it down in the bellowing sea: +"And if thou canst bring it again to the strand, +The first, and the best of my knights thou shalt be; +If that will not tempt thee, this maid thou shalt wed, +And share as a husband the joys of her bed." + +Then the pride of old Eirin arose in his look, +And it flash'd from his eye-balls courageously keen, +One glance on the beautiful vision he took, +And he saw her change colour, and sink on the green. +"By the stool of Saint Peter the prize I'll obtain;" +He shouted, and instantly dived in the main. + +The waters sunk down, and a thundering peal +Announced that the time of their sojourn was o'er; +Each eye is cast downward in terrified zeal, +As forth from the tunnel the cataracts pour. +The waters rush up, and the waters subside; +But ah! the bold diver remains in the tide. + + + + +KING BYRGE AND HIS BROTHERS + + +Dame Ingeborg three brave brothers could boast, +For the crown of Sweden their lives they lost. + +The nobles to Sweden would fain away, +Dame Ingeborg bade them at home to stay. + +Dame Ingeborg stood at Helsingborg's gate, +"Dear brothers, go not, I beg and entreat!" + +Then with one voice the brothers cried: +"We've long for our realms paternal sighed. + +"And we have too long with thee remained, +Our hearts within us are sorely pained." + +"Five days with me, dear brothers, wait, +Whilst I my dreadful dream relate. + +"Methought that your mantles were of lead, +With them, dear brothers, ye were arrayed. + +"They were fast tied about your throats, +And treachery towards ye that denotes." + +To Dame Ingeborg's rede no ear they lent, +But to Sweden that very same day they went. + +And when they had won to the sand beach white, +There met them Brouk, that faithless knight. + +"Ye brothers both, thrice welcome be, +Ye'll come and drink Yule with His Majesty?" + +The nobles repair to Nykoping street, +There they a deceitful counsel meet. + +"Now off your bodies your armour lay, +And hie to the castle in court dress gay." + +In at the doorway the nobles stepped, +Up to receive them the monarch leapt. + +"My dear brothers both, thrice welcome be, +Will ye drink Yule with our Majesty?" + +With his brothers down sate King Byrge to food, +Much serious discourse betwixt them ensued. + +"Now welcome, my brothers, thrice welcome I say, +May I not alone the country sway?" + +"May God to our brother grant happiness, +But he cannot alone the land to possess." + +The nobles they ate and they drank for a trice, +Brouk has discovered another device: + +"What will ye now do, ye worshipful knights, +Have drinking and dancing for ye delights?" + +Then they danced out and danced in with glee, +And Brouk the clear wine poured so free. + +On the floor stood the nobles and 'gan to sing, +Whilst Brouk proceeded to plot with the King. + +Then unto his brother Duke Valdemar said: +"O Erik, we drink too much wine, I'm afraid. + +"Be we on our guard 'gainst Brouk's pleasantries, +He knoweth all manner of villanies." + +Duke Erik held up his good right hand: +"Shall we fear aught in our fatherland? + +"We are come with a safety assurance fair, +And of no quarrel are we aware." + +They drank and they danced till the day had ta'en flight, +Then illumined was torch and big wax light. + +To hie now to bed the nobles desired, +And repose on the bolsters their bodies tired. + +Then in to the prison tower they were led, +The King himself went in his cloak of red. + +They thought that in jest the thing was done, +'Till he slammed the doors to every one. + +Manlike fought Erik and scorned to yield, +As long as he'd sword or a post to wield. + +Broke sword! broke post! they no more could defend! +Into prison they naked were forced to wend. + +The noble brothers suffered sore, +From frost and from cold and from hunger much more. + +"We'll give thee, Brouk, the gold so red, +If thou'lt give us but water and bread." + +"Ye shall not obtain in Sweden here, +Or bread or water your hearts to cheer." + +"Our dear brother's wife we are confident, +To let us be starved will ne'er consent. + +"We know the Queen has a pitying breast, +She will straw send us whereon to rest. + +"The hunger within us is sharp and strong, +Our hearts must certainly burst ere long." + +Then Brouk at that word so wrathful grew, +The keys he into the salt fiord threw. + +Twas dismal to hear how with hunger they roared, +Each others shoulders they devoured. + +And there is yet more woe to relate, +The flesh from the sides of each other they ate. + +Much misery and woe there was that tide, +In each other's arms the brothers died. + +And thus things stood till five months were fled, +King Byrge came home from the war-field red. + +"Now whither departed are brothers mine? +Why didst thou not give them their fill of wine?" + +Then answered straight the little child: +"Brouk into the tower the nobles beguiled." + +King Byrge peeped in the window through, +The state of the brothers was piteous to view. + +"Now hear thou, Brouk, straight to me declare, +Where the prison keys are I gave to thy care?" + +"May the blessed Christ my soul ne'er save, +If I cast them not in the briny wave." + +"O Brouk, shame fall thy head upon, +So evilly towards me thou has done. + +"Thou fool and villain! I've lost thereby +The keys to Sweden's sovereignty." + +"If I have betrayed thy brothers twain, +Thou mayest alone over Sweden reign." + +That deed such grief to the Dukes' friends gave, +And that grief they carried to the grave. + +With his Queen King Byrge must fly from his throne, +Beheaded was Magnus, his beautiful son. + +But Brouk to the infamous wheel was consigned, +May all such traitors a like end find! + +When sovereigns many there are to a land, +You'll never see them go hand in hand. + +The one 'fore the other must certainly fall, +Not seldom destruction comes o'er them all. + +Though fraud and deceit for a time have success, +At length on their owner they'll bring distress. + + + + +TURKISH HYMN TO MAHOMET + + +O envoy of Allah, to thee be salaam, +With my whole heart I love thee, O blest be thy name. +At the high throne of God thou for sinners dost plead +Who forgives for thy sake each iniquitous deed. +O Prophet of Allah, for all that I've done +Of rebellion against Him, tis thou must atone. +For Thou art the one intercessor, Thou, Thou-- +The prince of the prophets to whom the rest bow. +In the world's Judgment Day when all nations are met, +When good deeds and bad in the balance are set, +Intercession I hope for, from Thee, only Thee, +So breathe intercession for me, wretched me. +'Tis true my misdeeds I'm unable to count, +But I know that thy goodness exceeds their amount. +Like one who's defunct I a long time have been, +My body is drowned in an ocean of sin. +My rebellions they be of so dreadful a die +That to wend to my Maker no courage have I. +Now save I in dust at thy feet myself throw, +And thy footstool I strike with my agonis'd brow; +And save thou for me dost benignantly speak, +What for me will remain but despairing to shriek? +For unless I thy kind intercession procure, +My soul with the Kaffirs will torments endure. +But I trust thou wilt that for thy servant employ' +And that rest I shall gain, and unspeakable joy. +Unto thee without end shall be praises and prayers, +And also to them, thy disciples and heirs, +The voyagers noble who trod the true road, +And to others the path of salvation who show'd, +The four eldest friends of exalted degree +Who of our religion the four pillars be. +First of all the good King of the Kingdom of Grace, +The just Abon Bekir with truth in his face; +The next the stout lion so bravely who warr'd, +The Lyon of the Mussulman, Omar my Lord. +The third a high Emir, renowned midst our clan, +The child of the moment, the Emir Othman. +The fourth of the pillars, my Lord Ali dear, +Inspector acute of the dark and the clear. +Then the light of our eyes, the delectable twain, +The Lovely Prince Hassan, the Emir Hoseyn. +Nor unnoticed by men shall be suffered to pass +Those excellent uncles, Hanozah and Abbess. +Unto each of that band be a thousand salaams, +An bless'd through all ages be each of their names. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. 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