Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
[See p. 131
“SHE KNELT DOWN BEFORE HIM.... THE WOMAN IN HER PLEADED AS BEFORE A LAWMAN”
Randvar the Songsmith
A Romance of Norumbega
By
Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
Author of
“The Thrall of Leif the Lucky” etc.
New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1906
Copyright, 1906, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published February, 1906.
“Yet onward still to ear and eye
The baffling marvel calls;
I fain would look before I die
On Norumbega’s walls.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier
v
The Skeleton in Armor
By
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Speak! speak! thou fearful guest!
Who, with thy hollow breast
Still in rude armor drest,
Comest to daunt me!
Wrapt not in Eastern balms,
But with thy fleshless palms
Stretched, as if asking alms,
Why dost thou haunt me?”
Then, from those cavernous eyes
Pale flashes seem to rise,
As when the Northern skies
Gleam in December;
And, like the water’s flow
Under December’s snow,
Came a dull voice of woe
From the heart’s chamber.
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