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Observe ye not yon high cliff's brow	A
Up which a wanderer clambers slow	B
'T is by a hoary ruin crown'd	C
Which rocks when shrill winds whistle round	C
That is an ancient knightly hold	D
Alas it droops deserted cold	D
And sad and cheerless seems to gaze	E
Back back to yon heroic days	E
When youthful Kemps completely arm'd	F
And lovely maids around it swarm'd	G
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You in the tower a hole may see	H
A window there has ceas'd to be	H
From that once lean'd a damsel bright	I
In evening's red and fading light	I
And star'd intently down the way	J
Up which should come her lover gay	J
But time it flies on rapid wing	K
Far off a church is towering	K
Within it stand two marble stones	L
That rest above the lovers' bones	L
But see the wanderer with pain	M
Has reach'd the pile he wish'd to gain	M
Whilst Sol behind the ruin'd walls	N
Down into sacred nature falls	N
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See there two hostile nobles fight	I
With tiger rage and giant might	I
There's seen no smoke there's heard no shot	O
For guns and powder yet were not	O
'T was custom then when foemen warr'd	O
To win or lose with spear and sword	O
A wild heroic song they yell	P
And each the other seeks to fell	P
Oft oft her ownself to destroy	Q
Her own hand nature does employ	Q
There casts the hill up fire flakes	R
And Earth's gigantic body quakes	R
There lightnings through the high blue flash	S
And ocean's billows wildly dash	S
There men 'gainst men their muscles strain	M
And deal out death and wounds and pain	M
O Nature to thyself show less	T
Of hate and more of tenderness	U
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How dusky is the air around	O
We are no more above the ground	O
But down we wend within the hill	V
Whose springs our ears with hissings fill	V
See there how rich the ruddy gold	O
Winds snakeways 'midst the clammy mould	O
And hard green stone By torches' ray	J
The harvest there men mow away	J
But see ye not yon gath'ring cloud	O
Which 'gainst them cometh paley proud	O
That holds the spirit of the hill	V
Who brings death in its hand so chill	V
If down they do not quickly fall	W
Most certainly 't will slay them all	W
For sorely wrathful is its mood	O
Because they break its solitude	O
Because its treasure off they bear	X
And fling light o'er its gloomy lair	X
'T is white and Kobbold is the name	Y
Which it from oldest days does claim	Y
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Now back at once into time we go	B
For many a hundred years I trow	B
A gothic chamber salutes your sight	O
A taper gleams feebly through the night	O
A ghostly man by the board you see	H
With his hand to his temples muses he	H
Parchments with age discolour'd and dun	Z
Ancient shields all written upon	A2
Tree bark bearing ciphers half defac'd	O
Stones with Runes and characters grac'd	O
Things of more worth than ye are aware	X
On the mighty table are pil'd up there	X
He gazes now in exstatic trance	B2
Through the casement out into nature's expanse	B2
Whene'er we sit at the lone midnight	O
And stare out into the dubious light	O
Whilst the pallid moon is peering o'er	C2
Ruin'd cloister and crumbling tower	C2
Feelings so wondrous strange come o'er us	U
The past and the future arise before us	U
The present fadeth unmark'd away	J
In the garb of insignificancy	U
He gazes up into nature's height	O
The noble man with his eye so bright	O
He gazes up to the starry skies	U
Whither sooner or later we hope to rise	U
And now he takes in haste the pen	D2
And the spirit of Oldom flows from it amain	D2
The scatter'd Goth songs he changes unto	O
An Epic which maketh each bosom to glow	B
Thanks to the old Monk toiling thus	U
They call him Saxo Grammaticus	U
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An open field before you lies	U
A wind burst o'er its bosom sighs	U
Now all is still all seems asleep	E2
'Midst of the field there stands a heap	E2
Upon the heap stand Runic stones	U
Thereunder rest gigantic bones	U
From Arild's time that heap stands there	X
But now 't is till'd with utmost care	X
In order that its owner may	J
Thereoff reap golden corn one day	J
Oft has he tried the niggard soul	F2
The mighty stones away to roll	F2
As useless burdens of his ground	O
But they for that too big were found	O
See see the moon through cloud and rack	G2
Looks down upon the letters black	G2
And when the ghost its form uprears	U
He shines upon its bursting tears	U
For oh the moon's an ancient man	D2
Describe him mortal tongue ne'er can	D2
He shines alike serene and bright	O
At midmost hour of witching night	O
Upon the spot of love and glee	H
And on the gloomy gallows tree	H
Upon each Rune behold him stare	X
While off he hastes through fields of air	X
He understands those signs I'll gage	H2
Whose meaning lies in sunken age	H2
And if he were in speaking state	O
No doubt the old man could relate	O
Strange things that have on earth occurr'd	O
Of which fame ne'er has said a word	O
But since with look with look alone	D2
He cannot those events make known	D2
He waketh from his height sublime	I2
Mere longing for the dark gone time	I2

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