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lakes full many in number their mirror held up for the mountains held for the forests up in whose depths the high-horned reindeers had their kingly walk and drank of a hundred brooklets	img2poems
'mid these scattered now here and now there were numberless flocks of sheep with fleeces white as thou seest the white-looking stray clouds flock-wise spread o'er the heavenly vault when it bloweth in springtime	img2poems
lately between the two on a bear-skin (the skin it was coal-black scarlet-red was the throat but the paws were shodden with silver thorsten sat with his friends hospitality sitting with gladness	img2poems
oft when the moon through the cloudrack flew related the old man wonders from distant lands he had seen and cruises of vikings far away on the baltic and sea of the west and the white sea	img2poems
midway the floor burned ever the fire-flame glad on its stone-built hearth and thorough the wide-mouthed smoke-flue looked the stars those heavenly friends down into the great hall	img2poems
round the walls upon nails of steel were hanging in order breastplate and helmet together and here and there among them downward lightened a sword as in winter evening a star shoots	img2poems
ever and anon went a maid round the hoard and filled up the drink-horns ever she cast down her eyes and blushed in the shield her reflection blushed too even as she this gladdened the drinking champions	img2poems
now the huntsman's band is ready hurrah over hill and dale	img2poems
frithiof listens hark there sings a snow-white bird upon the bough though no human eye beholds thee odin's eye beholds thee now	img2poems
straight the ancient king awakens sweet has been my sleep he said pleasantly sleeps one in the shadow guarded by a brave man's blade	img2poems
go not to the strand ring with thy bride after the stars spread their light through the sky	img2poems
perhaps in the sand washed up by the tide the bones of the outlawed viking may lie	img2poems
then quoth the king 't is mournful to hear a man like a whimpering maiden cry	img2poems
pentecost day of rejoicing had come the church of the village gleaming stood in the morning's sheen	img2poems
on the spire of the bell decked with a brazen cock the friendly flames of the spring-sun glanced like the tongues of fire beheld by apostles aforetime	img2poems
also the church within was adorned for this was the season when the young their parents' hope and the loved-ones of heaven should at the foot of the altar renew the vows of their baptism	img2poems
but in front of the choir round the altar-piece painted by horberg crept a garland gigantic and bright-curling tresses of angels peeped like the sun from a cloud from out of the shadowy leaf-work	img2poems
hark then roll forth at once the mighty tones of the organ hover like voices from god aloft like invisible spirits	img2poems
friendly was he to behold and glad as the heralding angel walked he among the crowds but still a contemplative grandeur lay on his forehead as clear as on moss-covered gravestone a sunbeam	img2poems
and to the children explained the holy the highest in few words thorough yet simple and clear for sublimity always is simple both in sermon and song a child can seize on its meaning	img2poems
this is the hour of your trial the turning-point of existence seed for the coming days without revocation departeth now from your lips the confession bethink ye before ye make answer	img2poems
kneeling he read then the prayers of the consecration and softly with him the children read at the close with tremulous accents asked he the peace of heaven a benediction upon them	img2poems
sudden as struck from the clouds stood the teacher silent and laid his hand on his forehead and cast his looks upward while thoughts high and holy flew through the midst of his soul and his eyes glanced with wonderful brightness	img2poems
tokens are dead if the things live not the light everlasting unto the blind is not but is born of the eye that has vision	img2poems
decked like an altar before them there stood the green earth and above it heaven opened itself as of old before stephen they saw there radiant in glory the father and on his right hand the redeemer	img2poems
north sea a glimpse of wessel rent thy murky sky	img2poems
from denmark thunders tordenskiol let each to heaven commend his soul and fly	img2poems
and amid pleasures and alarm and war and victory be thine arms my grave	img2poems
now have i but their memory fondly cherished god may i never lose that too	img2poems
hold your tongues both swabian and saxon	img2poems
a bold bohemian cries if there's a heaven upon this earth in bohemia it lies	img2poems
thou mayest stand on the mainmast tall for full to sinking is my house with merry companions all	img2poems
whither o brooklet say i thou hast with thy soft murmur murmured my senses away	img2poems
that can no murmur be 't is the water-nymphs that are singing their roundelays under me	img2poems
she can both false and friendly be beware beware	img2poems
she gives a side-glance and looks down beware beware	img2poems
and what she says it is not true beware beware	img2poems
she knows how much it is best to show beware beware	img2poems
it is a fool's-cap for thee to wear beware beware	img2poems
and yet all our sorrowings and all our rejoicings thou dost feel them all	img2poems
god hath wonders many which we cannot fathom placed within thy form	img2poems
when the heart is sinking thou alone canst raise it trembling in the storm	img2poems
should i speak it here ye would stand aghast with fear i am a prince of mighty sway	img2poems
pale the children both did look but the guest a beaker took golden wine will make you whole	img2poems
the children drank gave many a courteous thank o that draught was very cool	img2poems
spake the grim guest from his hollow cavernous breast roses in the spring i gather	img2poems
who leads us with a gentle hand thither o thither into the silent land	img2poems
the graybeard with trembling hand obeys a purple light shines over all it beams from the luck of edenhall	img2poems
o hemlock tree o hemlock tree how faithful are thy branches	img2poems
o maiden fair o maiden fair how faithless is thy bosom	img2poems
who has it not wants hardihood who has it has much trouble and care who once has had it has despair	img2poems
whilom love was like a tire and warmth and comfort it bespoke but alas it now is quenched and only bites us like the smoke	img2poems
ah who would not then depart with gladness to inherit heaven for earthly sadness	img2poems
thou shalt not fail but ah be never false as thy father was to me	img2poems
the men shoved off men on their willing way the bounden wood	img2poems
god thanked they that to them the sea-journey easy had been	img2poems
him the doubt disturbed in his mind's thought what these men might be	img2poems
went then to the shore on his steed riding the thane of hrothgar	img2poems
quickest is best to make known whence your coming may be	img2poems
in the foulness of earth thou all wearest away like to the loam	img2poems
with beast and bird the forest rings each in his jargon cries or sings and time throws off his cloak again	img2poems
gentle spring in sunshine clad well dost thou thy power display	img2poems
sweet babe true portrait of thy father's face sleep on the bosom that thy lips have pressed	img2poems
awake and chase this fatal thought unclose thine eye but for one moment on the light	img2poems
sweet error he but slept i breathe again come gentle dreams the hour of sleep beguile	img2poems
but death steals on there is no hope of life in paradise where almoners live again there are our couches spread there shall we rest from pain	img2poems
when he revived with a loud voice cried he o heavenly father holy saint marie	img2poems
beloved france how have the good and brave been torn from thee and left thee weak and poor	img2poems
when one beholds the dusky hedges blossom a rustic bridal oh how sweet it is	img2poems
o no for a maiden frail i trow never bore so lofty a brow	img2poems
she promises one a village swain another a happy wedding-day and the bride a lovely boy straightway	img2poems
yet jane has named him not these three days past arrived yet keeps aloof so far	img2poems
come keep the promise of that happier day that i may keep the faith to thee i plighted	img2poems
i suffer o my god come make me glad	img2poems
earth i forget and heaven and all distresses when seated by my side my hand he presses but when alone remember all	img2poems
ah woe is me then bear me to my grave	img2poems
away he will return i do but rave	img2poems
he swore it by our saviour dear he could not come at his own will is weary or perhaps is ill	img2poems
and that deceives me not 't is he 't is he	img2poems
angela married and not send to tell her secret unto me	img2poems
paul be not sad 't is a holiday to-morrow put on thy doublet gay	img2poems
away with a hop and a jump went paul and as he whistled along the hall entered jane the crippled crone	img2poems
but thou art cold art chill as death my little friend what ails thee sweet	img2poems
thus margaret said where are we we ascend	img2poems
at length the bell with booming sound sends forth resounding round	img2poems
't is spoken and sudden at the grooms-man's side 't is he a well-known voice has cried	img2poems
let us by the fire ever higher sing them till the night expire	img2poems
let us by the fire ever higher sing them fill the night expire	img2poems
to m duperrier gentleman of aix in provence on the death of his daughter	img2poems
and shall the sad discourse whispered within thy heart by tenderness paternal only augment its force	img2poems
dear child who me resemblest so it whispered come o come with me	img2poems
and so whenever death shall come to close the happy moments that my days compose i full of years shall die obscure alone	img2poems
how wretched is the man with honors crowned who having not the one thing needful found dies known to all but to himself unknown	img2poems
and when therefrom i had withdrawn a little mine eyes that i might question my conductor again i saw it brighter grown and larger	img2poems
thereafter on all sides of it appeared i knew not what of white and underneath little by little there came forth another	img2poems
see how he scorns all human arguments so that no oar he wants nor other sail than his own wings between so distant shores	img2poems
see how he holds them pointed straight to heaven fanning the air with the eternal pinions that do not moult themselves like mortal hair	img2poems
then made he sign of holy rood upon them whereat all cast themselves upon the shore and he departed swiftly as he came	img2poems
already my slow steps had led me on into the ancient wood so far that i could see no more the place where i had entered	img2poems
that they might fear thee more or love thee less who in the splendor of thy loveliness seem wasting yet to mortal combat dare	img2poems

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