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ANOTHER RUNIC ODE by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER

First Line: AT LENGTH APPEARS THE WISH'D-FOR NIGHT
Last Line: I SMILE IN THE EMBRACE OF DEATH!
Subject(s): COURTS & COURTIERS; DEATH; WAR; DEAD, THE;

AT length appears the wish'd-for Night,
When my glad Soul shall take her Flight;
Tremble my Limbs, my Eye-balls start,
The Venom's busy at my Heart.
Hark! how the solemn Sisters call,
And point aloft to @3Odin@1's Hall!
I come, I come, prepare full Bowls,
Fit Banquet for heroic Souls:
What's Life?—I scorn this idle Breath,
I smile in the Embrace of Death!



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