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Canto I.
HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS.
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I would I were older and knighthood could bear,
I would soon quit the banks of the Tyne and the Wear;
For my mother's command with her last parting breath,
Bade me follow her nurseling in life and to death.
I would soon quit the banks of the Tyne and the Wear;
For my mother's command with her last parting breath,
Bade me follow her nurseling in life and to death.
XV.
"It pours and it thunders, it lightens amain,
As if Lok, the Destroyer, had burst from his chain!
Accursed by the church, and expell'd by his sire,
Nor Christian nor Dane give him shelter or fire,
And this tempest what mortal may houseless endure?
Unaided, unmantled, he dies on the moor!
"It pours and it thunders, it lightens amain,
As if Lok, the Destroyer, had burst from his chain!
Accursed by the church, and expell'd by his sire,
Nor Christian nor Dane give him shelter or fire,
And this tempest what mortal may houseless endure?
Unaided, unmantled, he dies on the moor!