In his narrow house Some Warrior sleeps below, whose gallant deeds Haply at many a solemn festival The Scald hath sung ; but perish'd is the song Of praise, as o'er these bleak and barren downs The wind that passes and is heard no more. Shetland Folk-lore - Seite 81von John Spence - 1899 - 255 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Southey - 1839 - 840 Seiten
...narrow house Some Warrior sleeps below, whose gallant deeds Haply at many a solemn festival The Scald hath sung; but perish'd is the song Of praise, as...barren downs The wind that passes and is heard no more. Go, Traveller, and remember, when the pomp Of earthly Glory fades, that one good deed, Unseen, unheard,... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1859 - 300 Seiten
...narrow house Some warrior sleeps below, whose gallant deeds Haply at many a solemn festival The Seald hath sung; but perish'd Is the song Of praise, as o'er these bleak and barren dowus The. wind that passes and is heard no moro. Go, traveller, and remember, when the pomp Of earthly... | |
| Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1908 - 268 Seiten
...defied their blows. When death claimed him, his followers buried him in the silver mail and he — "... whose gallant deeds Haply at many a solemn festival The skald hath sung," with his prized blade rusted, his bones dust, in the Victorian era was robbed of his long-preserved... | |
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