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HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS.
Canto I.
In the train of Lord Harold the page was the first,For Harold in childhood had Ermengarde nursed;And grieved was young Gunnar his master should roam,Unhoused and unfriended, an exile from home.He heard the deep thunder, the plashing of rain,He saw the red lightning through shot-hole and pane;"And oh!" said the page, "on the shelterless woldLord Harold is wandering in darkness and cold!What though he was stubborn, and wayward, and wild,He endured me because I was Ermengarde's child,And often from dawn till the set of the sun,In the chase, by his stirrup, unchidden I run:
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