William H Babcock Poems

Usual is wind from the north,
Usual for maids to be lovely
Usual a handsome man in Gwynedd,
Usual after drinking is derangement of the senses.
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Bright were the burgh dwellings,
Many its princely halls,
High its steepled splendor,
Many a mead-hall full of human joys;
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Where is the woodland city,
city beside the sea,
White from her ramparts towering,
Queen of the Andred lea?
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White was the great steed under him,
White was the gleam of mailéd limb-
Swift as the warrior seraphim!
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