will store.

And so he took the ruddy gold, And in a coffer it he laid; Unknown to him proud Ellenlile So sly therein herself convey’d.

p. 29He takes the man beneath his arm, The coffer on his back he throws; Then away, away beneath the salt spray Striding the Giant Rosmer goes.

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“Now have I brought thee to the land, And moon and sun thou canst behold; And now to use as thou shalt chuse I give this coffer filled with gold.”

“I thank thee, Rosmer, honest man, Thou’st brought me out of the ocean wild; And now I’ll tell thee a piece of news, The proud Dame Ellen is with child.”

Then ran the tears down Rosmer’s cheeks, As falls the dew on hill and plain: “If thou hadst not my troth and oath Here as thou standest thee I’d brain.”

Rosmer hied to the hill so fast, As hind before the hart doth run; And when he came within the hill Behold proud Ellenlile was gone.

p. 30But Ellenlile took Roland’s hand,  ’Midst sport and jest away they hied; To young Roland she told her tale, And Roland served her as a guide.

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When Rosmer saw his love was gone, So full was he of grief and dool, He turned him into a huge grey rock, And there he standeth like a fool.

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p. 31London: Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W. Edition limited to Thirty copies.

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p. 32Copyright in the United States of America by Houghton Mifflin & Co., for Clement Shorter.

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