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HALBERT THE GRIM. There is blood on that brow, There is blood on
that hand; There is blood on that hauberk, And blood on that brand.
Oh bloody all o'er is His war-cloak, I weet; He is wrapped in the
cover Of murder's red sheet. There is pity in man? Is there any in
him ? No ruth were a strange guest To Halbert the Grim. The hardest
may soften, The fiercest repent; But the heart of Grim Halbert May
never relent. Death doing on earth is For ever his cry; And pillage
and plunder His hope in the sky 'Tis midnight, deep midnight, And
dark is the heaven; Sir Halbert, in mockery, Wends to be shriven.
He kneels not to stone, And he bends not to wood; But he swung
round his brown blade, And hewed down the Rood He stuck his long
sword, with Its point in the earth; And he prayed to its cross
hilt, In mockery and mirth. Thus lowly he louteth, And mumbles his
beads; Then lightly he riseth, And homeward he speeds. His steed
hurries homewards, Darkling and dim; Right fearful it prances With
Halbert the Grim. Still fiercer it tramples, The spur gores its
side; Now downward and downward Grim Halbert doth ride. The brown
wood is threaded, The grey flood is past, Yet hoarser and wilder
Moans ever the blast. No star lends its taper, No moon sheds her
glow; For dark is the dull path That Baron must go. Though starless
the sky, and No moon shines abroad, Yet, flashing with fire, all At
once gleams the road. And his black steed, I trow, As it galloped
on, With a hot sulphur halo, And flame-flash all shone. From eye
and from nostril, Out gushed the pale flame, And from its chafed
mouth, the Churned fire-froth came. They are two they are two ?
They are coal-bl...
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