The Calling Of Hengist and Horsa
by John Lesslie Hall
Lo! in legend and lay long we have heard of
The fame of our fathers, folk-leaders mighty,
Eminent earlmen.   Oft, gleemen-thanes
All through the ages, excellent song-smiths,
Have sung of the bold and brave and illustrious
Fathers of England from far o’er the waters,
Earls of the eastward, how, oft in their sea-boats,
They sailed [...]

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