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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409369" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beowulf's Expedition To Heort</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus then, much care-worn, <br>The son of Healfden <br>Sorrowed evermore, <br>Nor might the prudent hero <br>His woes avert. <br>The war was too hard, <br>Too loath and longsome, <br>That on the people came, <br>Dire wrath and grim, <br>Of night-woes the worst. <br>This from home heard <br>Higelac's Thane, <br>Good among the Goths, <br>Grendel's deeds. <br>He was of mankind <br>In might the strongest, <br>At that day <br>Of this life, <br>Noble and stalwart. <br>He bade him a sea-ship, <br>A goodly one, prepare. <br>Quoth he, the war-king, <br>Over the swan's road, <br>Seek he would <br>The mighty monarch, <br>Since he wanted men. <br>For him that journey <br>His prudent fellows <br>Straight made ready, <br>Those that loved him. <br>They excited their souls, <br>The omen they beheld. <br>Had the good-man <br>Of the Gothic people <br>Champions chosen, <br>Of those that keenest <br>He might find, <br>Some fifteen men. <br>The sea-wood sought he. <br>The warrior showed, <br>Sea-crafty man! <br>The land-marks, <br>And first went forth. <br>The ship was on the waves, <br>Boat under the cliffs. <br>The barons ready <br>To the prow mounted. <br>The streams they whirled <br>The sea against the sands. <br>The chieftains bore <br>On the naked breast <br>Bright ornaments, <br>War-gear, Goth-like. <br>The men shoved off, <br>Men on their willing way, <br>The bounden wood. <br>Then went over the sea-waves, <br>Hurried by the wind, <br>The ship with foamy neck, <br>Most like a sea-fowl, <br>Till about one hour <br>Of the second day <br>The curved prow <br>Had passed onward <br>So that the sailors <br>The land saw, <br>The shore-cliffs shining, <br>Mountains steep, <br>And broad sea-noses. <br>Then was the sea-sailing <br>Of the Earl at an end. <br>Then up speedily <br>The Weather people <br>On the land went, <br>The sea-bark moored, <br>Their mail-sarks shook, <br>Their war-weeds. <br>God thanked they, <br>That to them the sea-journey <br>Easy had been. <br>Then from the wall beheld <br>The warden of the Scyldings, <br>He who the sea-cliffs <br>Had in his keeping, <br>Bear o'er the balks <br>The bright shields, <br>The war-weapons speedily. <br>Him the doubt disturbed <br>In his mind's thought, <br>What these men might be. <br>Went then to the shore, <br>On his steed riding, <br>The Thane of Hrothgar. <br>Before the host he shook <br>His warden's-staff in hand, <br>In measured words demanded: <br>'What men are ye <br>War-gear wearing, <br>Host in harness, <br>Who thus the brown keel <br>Over the water-street <br>Leading come <br>Hither over the sea? <br>I these boundaries <br>As shore-warden hold, <br>That in the Land of the Danes <br>Nothing loathsome <br>With a ship-crew <br>Scathe us might. . . . <br>Ne'er saw I mightier <br>Earl upon earth <br>Than is your own, <br>Hero in harness. <br>Not seldom this warrior <br>Is in weapons distinguished; <br>Never his beauty belies him, <br>His peerless countenance! <br>Now would I fain <br>Your origin know, <br>Ere ye forth <br>As false spies <br>Into the Land of the Danes <br>Farther fare. <br>Now, ye dwellers afar-off! <br>Ye sailors of the sea! <br>Listen to my <br>One-fold thought. <br>Quickest is best <br>To make known <br>Whence your coming may be.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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The son of Healfden 
Sorrowed evermore, 
Nor might the prudent hero 
His woes avert. 
The war was too hard, 
Too loath and longsome, 
That on the people came, 
Dire wrath and grim, 
Of night-woes the worst. 
This from h..."></div>
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