Lyrics
Against the Warring Winds
Had you not been their father,
these white flakes
Had challenged pity of them.
Was this a face
To be opposed against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick, cross lightning? to watch--poor perdu!--
With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,
He wakes; speak to him.
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire;
and wast thou fain, poor father,
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn,
In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!
'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once
Had not concluded all.
He wakes; speak to him.
He wakes;
speak
to
him.
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