Unconscious they had suffer’d death.

CANTO XXVII.
THE BANQUET OF ÆGIR.

Hlesey’s an island of renown;

But now ’tis small, for time and tide,

Batt’ring its base on every side,

Into the sea have plough’d it down;

But great in times of old its worth;

Then Hlesey could the rage abate