lirik lagu the skeleton in armor - hal holbrook
“speak! speak! thou fearful guest!
who, with thy hollow breast
still in rude armor drest
comest to daunt me!
wrapt not in eastern balms
but with thy fleshless palms
stretched, as if asking alms
why dost thou haunt me?”
then, from those cavernous eyes
pale flashes seemed to rise
as when the northern skies
gleam in december;
and, like the water’s flow
under december’s snow
came a dull voice of woe
from thе heart’s chamber
“i was a viking old!
my deeds, though manifold
no skald in song has told
no saga taught thee!
take heed, that in thy vеrse
thou dost the tale rehe~rs~
else dread a dead man’s curse;
for this i sought thee
“far in the northern land
by the wild baltic’s strand
i, with my childish hand
tamed the gerfalcon;
and, with my skates fast~bound
skimmed the half~frozen sound
that the poor whimpering hound
trembled to walk on
“oft to his frozen lair
tracked i the grisly bear
while from my path the hare
fled like a shadow;
oft through the forest dark
followed the were~wolf’s bark
until the soaring lark
sang from the meadow
“but when i older grew
joining a corsair’s crew
o’er the dark sea i flew
with the marauders
wild was the life we led;
many the souls that sped
many the hearts that bled
by our stern orders
“many a wassail~bout
wore the long winter out;
often our midnight shout
set the c~cks crowing
as we the berserk’s tale
measured in cups of ale
draining the oaken pail
filled to o’erflowing
“once as i told in glee
tales of the stormy sea
soft eyes did gaze on me
burning yet tender;
and as the white stars shine
on the dark norway pine
on that dark heart of mine
fell their soft splendor
“i wooed the blue~eyed maid
yielding, yet half afraid
and in the forest’s shade
our vows were plighted
under its loosened vest
fluttered her little breast
like birds within their nest
by the hawk frighted
“bright in her father’s hall
shields gleamed upon the wall
loud sang the minstrels all
chanting his glory;
when of old hildebrand
i asked his daughter’s hand
mute did the minstrels stand
to hear my story
“while the brown ale he quaffed
loud then the champion laughed
and as the wind~gusts waft
the sea~foam brightly
so the loud laugh of scorn
out of those lips unsh~rn
from the deep drinking~h~rn
blew the foam lightly
“she was a prince’s child
i but a viking wild
and though she blushed and smiled
i was discarded!
should not the dove so white
follow the sea~mew’s flight
why did they leave that night
her nest unguarded?
“scarce had i put to sea
bearing the maid with me
fairest of all was she
among the nors~m~n!
when on the white sea~strand
waving his armed hand
saw we old hildebrand
with twenty hors~m~n
“then launched they to the blast
bent like a reed each mast
yet we were gaining fast
when the wind failed us;
and with a sudden flaw
came round the gusty skaw
so that our foe we saw
laugh as he hailed us
“and as to catch the gale
round veered the flapping sail
‘death!’ was the helmsman’s hail
‘death without quarter!’
mid~ships with iron keel
struck we her ribs of steel;
down her black hulk did reel
through the black water!
“as with his wings aslant
sails the fierce cormorant
seeking some rocky haunt
with his prey laden, —
so toward the open main
beating to sea again
through the wild hurricane
bore i the maiden
“three weeks we westward bore
and when the storm was o’er
cloud~like we saw the shore
stretching to leeward;
there for my lady’s bower
built i the lofty tower
which, to this very hour
stands looking seaward
“there lived we many years;
time dried the maiden’s tears;
she had forgot her fears
she was a mother;
death closed her mild blue eyes
under that tower she lies;
ne’er shall the sun arise
on such another!
“still grew my bosom then
still as a stagnant fen!
hateful to me were men
the sunlight hateful!
in the vast forest here
clad in my warlike gear
fell i upon my spear
oh, death was grateful!
“thus, seamed with many scars
bursting these prison bars
up to its native stars
my soul ascended!
there from the flowing bowl
deep drinks the warrior’s soul
skoal! to the northland! skoal!”
thus the tale ended
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- lirik lagu снег (snow) - kolych
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