KING ERICK'S FAITH
I.
IN Upsal's stately Minster, before the altar, stands
The Swedish King, brave Erick, with high uplifted hands—
His royal robes are round him, the crown upon his head,
And thus, before his people, right sovranly he said:—
II.
"God! whoso trusteth in Thee will never rue his trust;
If God the Lord be with us, our foes shall flee like dust."
He spake—from priests and people rose up the answering cry—
"If God the Lord be with us, all danger we defy!"
II.
Scarce through the aisles is dying their mingled voices' din,
A pallid slave, disordered, comes rushing wildly in.
"Now God us aid!—Skalater, the Dane, has come again,
Fast pouring down the mountains with seven hundred men!"