The Expedition to Birting's Land
The Expedition to Birting's Land
and other ballads
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ed wide,
Where to Thor was offered the he-goat’s blood,
Where to Thor was offered the he-goat’s blood,
In reeking tide.
O, lovely field! and forest fair,
And meads grass-clad;
Her bride-bed Freya every where
Enamelled had.
The corn-flowers rose in azure band
From earthly cell;
Nought else could I do but stop and stand,
And greet them well.
Welcome on earth’s green breast again,
Ye flowerets dear!
In spring how charming ’mid the grain
Your heads ye rear.
Like stars ’midst lightning’s yellow ray
Ye shine red, blue:
O, how your summer aspect gay
Delights my view.
O poet! poet! silence keep,
God help thy case:
Our owner holds us sadly cheap,
And scorns our race.
Each time he sees, he calls us scum,
Or worthless tares;
Hell-weeds that but to vex him come
’Midst his corn-ears.
The greate
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