And loves on deer-borne car to ride

With barren Darkness by his side,

Round the shore where loud Lofoden

Whirls to death the roaring whale,

Round the hall where Runic Oden

Howls his war song to the gale;

Save when a-down the ravaged globe

He travels on his native storm,

Deflowering Nature's grassy robe,

And trampling on her faded form: