Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 563
rward dashing,The hallowed volume hurled upon the fire.Straightway the queen, with horror shaken, started,And from her tortured soul escaped a shriek.When lo ! the proud Crusader, lion-hearted, In fury brutal smote her lily cheek. It was a page — his name was Ottar Birting—A boy, scarce fifteen… … The slumbrous flames, their crimson flags unfurled, In eager joyous crackling upward leapt,About the parchment hungry tongues were curling;And soon in ash-flakes skyward would have sweptThe writhing leaves — when, swift from out the droopingAnd awe-struck throng, distraught by fear and shame,A…
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