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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Legend of The Corrievrechan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince Breacan of Denmark was lord of the strand<br>And lord of the billowy sea;<br>Lord of the sea and lord of the land,<br>He might have let maidens be!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A maiden he met with locks of gold,<br>Straying beside the sea:<br>Maidens listened in days of old,<br>And repented grievously.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wiser he left her in evil wiles,<br>Went sailing over the sea;<br>Came to the lord of the Western Isles:<br>Give me thy daughter, said he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lord of the Isles he laughed, and said:<br>Only a king of the sea<br>May think the Maid of the Isles to wed,<br>And such, men call not thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hold thine own three nights and days<br>In yon whirlpool of the sea,<br>Or turn thy prow and go thy ways<br>And let the isle-maiden be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince Breacan he turned his dragon prow<br>To Denmark over the sea:<br>Wise women, he said, now tell me how<br>In yon whirlpool to anchor me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Make a cable of hemp and a cable of wool<br>And a cable of maidens' hair,<br>And hie thee back to the roaring pool<br>And anchor in safety there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The smiths of Greydule, on the eve of Yule,<br>Will forge three anchors rare;<br>The hemp thou shalt pull, thou shalt shear the wool,<br>And the maidens will bring their hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of the hair that is brown thou shalt twist one strand,<br>Of the hair that is raven another;<br>Of the golden hair thou shalt twine a band<br>To bind the one to the other!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The smiths of Greydule, on the eve of Yule,<br>They forged three anchors rare;<br>The hemp he did pull, and he shore the wool,<br>And the maidens brought their hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He twisted the brown hair for one strand,<br>The raven hair for another;<br>He twined the golden hair in a band<br>To bind the one to the other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He took the cables of hemp and wool.<br>He took the cable of hair,<br>He hied him back to the roaring pool,<br>He cast the three anchors there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The whirlpool roared, and the day went by,<br>And night came down on the sea;<br>But or ever the morning broke the sky<br>The hemp was broken in three.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night it came down, the whirlpool it ran,<br>The wind it fiercely blew;<br>And or ever the second morning began<br>The wool it parted in two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The storm it roared all day the third,<br>The whirlpool wallowed about,<br>The night came down like a wild black bird,<br>But the cable of hair held out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Round and round with a giddy swing<br>Went the sea-king through the dark;<br>Round went the rope in the swivel-ring,<br>Round reeled the straining bark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince Breacan he stood on his dragon prow,<br>A lantern in his hand:<br>Blest be the maidens of Denmark now,<br>By them shall Denmark stand!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He watched the rope through the tempest black<br>A lantern in his hold:<br>Out, out, alack! one strand will crack!<br>It is the strand of gold!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The third morn clear and calm came out:<br>No anchored ship was there!<br>The golden strand in the cable stout<br>Was not all of maidens' hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+MacDonald">George MacDonald</a><div class=q>
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And lord of the billowy sea;
Lord of the sea and lord of the land,
He might have let maidens be!

A maiden he met with locks of gold,
Straying beside the sea:
Maidens listened in days of old,
And re..."></div>
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