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Canto II.
HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS.
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For a fair lineage to provide,
'Tis meet that my selected bride
In lineaments be fair;
I love thine well—till now I ne'er
Look'd patient on a face of fear,
But now that tremulous sob and tear
Become thy beauty rare.
One kiss—nay, damsel, coy it not:
And now go seek thy parents' cot,
And say, a bridegroom soon I come
To woo my love and bear her home."
'Tis meet that my selected bride
In lineaments be fair;
I love thine well—till now I ne'er
Look'd patient on a face of fear,
But now that tremulous sob and tear
Become thy beauty rare.
One kiss—nay, damsel, coy it not:
And now go seek thy parents' cot,
And say, a bridegroom soon I come
To woo my love and bear her home."
X.
Home sprung the maid without a pause,
As levret 'scaped from greyhound's jaws;
Home sprung the maid without a pause,
As levret 'scaped from greyhound's jaws;