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by Unknown

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 ger-falcon;

And, with my skates fast-bound,

Skimm’d the half-frozen Sound,

That the poor whimpering hound

Trembled to walk on.