Ingeborg the Fair
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
"Hoist up, hoist up your silken sails
And flee in teeth of outland gales:
Better be dead and past all care
Than look on Ingeborg the Fair.
"Hoist up, hoist up your silken sails,
Stop ears against her nightingales:
The seagull's song to Norseman's ear
Rings far more sweet and far more dear.
"Hoist up, hoist up your sails of gray,
And turn the Serpent's head away.
Vikings, be deaf and dumb and blind,
And leave white Ingeborg behind."
But folded hangs the silken sail,
And weary grows the northland gale:
Captain and crew and minstrel all
Sit careless in the golden hall.
Tho' loud the north wind calls, and long
The burden of the minstrel's song —
Burden of wives and maids that wait
Their Vikings by the water's gate.
"Hoist up, hoist up your silken sails,
Flee in the teeth of outland gales:
Better be dead and past all care
Than look on Ingeborg the Fair."
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