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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409613" 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 XIII. -- The Building Of The Long Serpent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thorberg Skafting, master-builder,<br>In his ship-yard by the sea,<br>Whistling, said, 'It would bewilder<br>Any man but Thorberg Skafting,<br>Any man but me!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Near him lay the Dragon stranded,<br>Built of old by Raud the Strong,<br>And King Olaf had commanded<br>He should build another Dragon,<br>Twice as large and long. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore whistled Thorberg Skafting,<br>As he sat with half-closed eyes,<br>And his head turned sideways, drafting<br>That new vessel for King Olaf<br>Twice the Dragon's size. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Round him busily hewed and hammered<br>Mallet huge and heavy axe;<br>Workmen laughed and sang and clamored;<br>Whirred the wheels, that into rigging<br>Spun the shining flax! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All this tumult heard the master,--<br>It was music to his ear;<br>Fancy whispered all the faster,<br>'Men shall hear of Thorberg Skafting<br>For a hundred year!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Workmen sweating at the forges<br>Fashioned iron bolt and bar,<br>Like a warlock's midnight orgies<br>Smoked and bubbled the black caldron<br>With the boiling tar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did the warlocks mingle in it,<br>Thorberg Skafting, any curse?<br>Could you not be gone a minute<br>But some mischief must be doing,<br>Turning bad to worse? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T was an ill wind that came wafting,<br>From his homestead words of woe;<br>To his farm went Thorberg Skafting,<br>Oft repeating to his workmen,<br>Build ye thus and so. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After long delays returning<br>Came the master back by night;<br>To his ship-yard longing, yearning,<br>Hurried he, and did not leave it<br>Till the morning's light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Come and see my ship, my darling!?<br>On the morrow said the King;<br>'Finished now from keel to carling;<br>Never yet was seen in Norway<br>Such a wondrous thing!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the ship-yard, idly talking,<br>At the ship the workmen stared:<br>Some one, all their labor balking,<br>Down her sides had cut deep gashes,<br>Not a plank was spared! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Death be to the evil-doer!'<br>With an oath King Olaf spoke;<br>'But rewards to his pursuer!?<br>And with wrath his face grew redder<br>Than his scarlet cloak. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Straight the master-builder, smiling,<br>Answered thus the angry King:<br>'Cease blaspheming and reviling,<br>Olaf, it was Thorberg Skafting<br>Who has done this thing!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he chipped and smoothed the planking,<br>Till the King, delighted, swore,<br>With much lauding and much thanking,<br>'Handsomer is now my Dragon<br>Than she was before!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seventy ells and four extended<br>On the grass the vessel's keel;<br>High above it, gilt and splendid,<br>Rose the figure-head ferocious<br>With its crest of steel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then they launched her from the tressels,<br>In the ship-yard by the sea;<br>She was the grandest of all vessels,<br>Never ship was built in Norway<br>Half so fine as she! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Long Serpent was she christened,<br>'Mid the roar of cheer on cheer!<br>They who to the Saga listened<br>Heard the name of Thorberg Skafting<br>For a hundred year!</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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In his ship-yard by the sea,
Whistling, said, 'It would bewilder
Any man but Thorberg Skafting,
Any man but me!' 

Near him lay the Dragon stranded,
Built of old by Raud the Strong,
And King Olaf had commanded
He..."></div>
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