hear my fervent sighs, Bear on broad wings your Votress to the skies!" Plume over plume in long divergent lines 20 On whale-bone ribs the fair Mechanic joins; Inlays with eider down the silken strings, And weaves in wide expanse Dædalian wings; Round her bold sons the waving pennons binds, And walks with angel-step upon the winds.

Then back he rode over the River Eider into the enemy's landfor they had stripped Denmark of all her hard-won possessions south of the ancient border of the kingdom, except Esthland and Rügenand with him went every man who could bear arms in all the nation.

" "Excuse me if I refuse to give the name of eider of dese gentlemen at dis onhappy season," he rejoined.