The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 467
d Hilde- brandI asked his daugh-ters hand,Mute did the min-strels standTo hear my story. While the brownale he quaffed Loud then the cham-pion laughed, And as the wind-gusts waftThe sea-foambrightly, So the loud laughof scorn. Out of those lipsunshorn, From the deepdrinking- horuBlew the… … Scarce had 1 put to sea,Bearing the maid with me,Fairest of all was she Among the Norsemen !When on the white sea-strand,Waving his armed hand.Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horse. Then launchedthey to theblast. Bent like a reedeach mast, Yet we were gain-ing fast,When the windfailed us; And…
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