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QUEEN’S COURT MANUSCRIPT.
In rear, in rear came to them fear
From all the forest wide;
They broke their ranks, and panic-struck
Took flight on every side.
With valiant hand bursts Voimir forth,
And the entrance of the vale
Half occupies across, and doth
Vlaslaw in flank assail.
’Tis crashing and dashing in the vale,
As hills with hills did fight,
And all the trees in all the wood
Did ’gainst each other smite.
Now Vlaslaw springs ’gainst Czestmir forth,
Czestmir ;gainst him doth bound!
In savage duel! wound on wound!
He smote him to the ground!
Vlaslaw extended on the earth
In fierce convulsions lies,
Nor sideways, backwards, doth his strength
Avail again to rise,
And all in black and gloomy night
Morena[1] wraps his eyes.
- ↑ Morena or Morana, the goddess of Death.
