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26 We twain, when still but younglings, had talked and pledged our plans To risk (we were but boys then) our lives far out to sea. We did as we had vowed to! Our naked swords had we, Our hardy swords, in hands there, on breasting seaward both, To fend us from the whale-fish. He could no whit from me Float o’er the sea- flood swifter-and I from him was loath. Thus were we twain together five nights upon the wave, Till surge and weltering waters us both asunder drave; The coldest of all weathers, dark night and northern blast, Blew battle-grim against us; fierce were the floods we passed; Roused was the wrath of mere-fish; but there against the foe My mail-coat, hard and hand- linked, helped me even so! My braided sark-of-battle lay about my breast, My corslet gold- adorned. Me bottom-ward did wrest A spotted Devil-Scather-fast held the Grim his grip! But unto me was given to pierce with swordsmanship, Aye, with the blade-of-battle, the Monster of the brine. The mighty Mere-Beast foundered through this hand of mine! |
