Marmion . CANTO SIXTH. RICHARD HEBER, ESQ Mertoun House, Christnui^ Heap on more wood ! — the wind is chill , But let it whistle as it will, We 11 keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even, heathen yet, the savage Dane At lol more deep the mead did drain ; High on the beach his galleys drew, And feasted all his pirate crew ; Then in his low and pine-built hall, Where shields and axes decked the wall, They gorged upon the half-dressed steer ; Caroused in seas of sable beer ; While round, in brutal jest, were thrown ^ \ 232 INT
Marmion . CANTO SIXTH. RICHARD HEBER, ESQ Mertoun House, Christnui^ Heap on more wood ! — the wind is chill , But let it whistle as it will, We 11 keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even, heathen yet, the savage Dane At lol more deep the mead did drain ; High on the beach his galleys drew, And feasted all his pirate crew ; Then in his low and pine-built hall, Where shields and axes decked the wall, They gorged upon the half-dressed steer ; Caroused in seas of sable beer ; While round, in brutal jest, were thrown ^ \ 232 INTRODUCTION TO The half-gnawed rilj, and marrowbone, Or listened all, in grim delight, While scalds yelled out the joys of fight. Then forth, in frenzy, Avould they hie, While wildly loose their red locks fly. And dancing round the blazing pile. They make such barbarous mirth the while, As best might to the mind recall The boisterous joys of Odins hall. And well our Christian sires of oldLoved when the year its course
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