Page:Poems - Sayers (1792).djvu/55

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

[ 47 ]

MOINA, CHORUS.

CHORUS.

Hail to her whom Frea loves,
Moina, hail:
When first thy infant eyes beheld
The blushing beam of orient day
Frea from Valhalla's groves
Mark'd thy birth in silent joy;
From Valhalla's groves she sent

    of the Gothic warriors, and by promising happiness to those who fell in battle. These Poems were called Vyses: and it is asserted that there were no less than 136 different kinds of measure used in them. The composers considered alliteration as highly important, if not absolutely necessary in versification and have generally studied it with great care: they appear to have entirely neglected rime, and only to have introduced it occasionally, and when it readily occurred.

The

This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.