Torquil or the Days of Olaf Tryggvason - With Legends, Ballads, Dreams, Etc #244316

Torquil or The Days of Olaf Tryggvason.<br><br>Part First.<br><br>I.<br><br>The waves were running wild and high,<br>Their foam crests white against the sky;<br>The clouds athwart the dome of Heaven<br>Burst angrily in gleams of levin;<br>The thunder's savage roaring came<br>After each flash of livid flame.<br>A strange, wild scene, that storm-beat isle,<br>Cleft by the sea from fair Argyle,<br>With barren cliffs of deep grey rock,<br>Storm-washed by every tempest's shock,<br>With hoary mountains, bleak and bare,<br>Rearing their summits in mid-air.