<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409609" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf VIII. -- Gudrun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On King Olaf's bridal night<br>Shines the moon with tender light,<br>And across the chamber streams<br>Its tide of dreams. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the fatal midnight hour,<br>When all evil things have power,<br>In the glimmer of the moon<br>Stands Gudrun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Close against her heaving breast<br>Something in her hand is pressed;<br>Like an icicle, its sheen<br>Is cold and keen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the cairn are fixed her eyes<br>Where her murdered father lies,<br>And a voice remote and drear<br>She seems to hear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a bridal night is this!<br>Cold will be the dagger's kiss;<br>Laden with the chill of death<br>Is its breath. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the drifting snow she sweeps<br>To the couch where Olaf sleeps;<br>Suddenly he wakes and stirs,<br>His eyes meet hers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What is that,' King Olaf said,<br>'Gleams so bright above my head?<br>Wherefore standest thou so white<br>In pale moonlight?' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">''T is the bodkin that I wear<br>When at night I bind my hair;<br>It woke me falling on the floor;<br>'T is nothing more.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Forests have ears, and fields have eyes;<br>Often treachery lurking lies<br>Underneath the fairest hair!<br>Gudrun beware!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere the earliest peep of morn<br>Blew King Olaf's bugle-horn;<br>And forever sundered ride<br>Bridegroom and bride!</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409609" data-title="Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf VIII. -- Gudrun de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="On King Olaf's bridal night Shines the moon with tender light, And across the chamber streams Its tide of dreams. At the fatal midnight hour, When all evil things have power, In the glimmer of the moon Stands Gudrun. Close against her heaving ..."></div> </div> </div>

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