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And the muscles about my wound had stiffen'd which was vilely painful: and the country, I saw, was a brown, barren moor, dotted with peat- ricks: and I cursed it. This did me good: for it woke the fighting-man in me, and I set my teeth. Now for the first time looking back, I saw, with a great gulp of joy, I had gained on the troopers.
"From sackcloth couch the Monk arose, With toil his stiffen'd limbs he rear'd; A hundred years had flung their snows On his thin locks and floating beard." But the lady scarcely noticed the little incident. After one glance at the 'banished man, who stood tremulously leaning on his stick, she turned to me. "This is not an American rocking-chair, by any means!
"The apples now grow green and sour Upon the mouldering castle wall, Before they ripen there they fall: There are no banners on the tower, The draggled swans most eagerly eat The green weeds trailing in the moat; Inside the rotting leaky boat You see a slain man's stiffen'd feet." These, with "The Sailing of the Sword," are my own old favourites.
To smooth my damp and stiffen'd hair, And murmur out the Saviour's prayer The first to grateful memory brought, The first a gentle mother taught, When, bending o'er her children's bed, She bade good angels guard my head; Then paused, with tearful eyes, and smiled On the calm slumbers of her child As God himself had heard her prayer, And holy angels worshipped there.
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