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GLAMSIGHT

   

1

This is a story told of Grettir

the Icelander, of how he became

uncertain.

  

          He was a rough man, brief,

reckless and sneering.  His face was broad

and much freckled, hair like greasy flame.

He was stronger than any man known

in the jokulls and dales, and a great

disliker of work, fond of lousy

tricks, his mouth full of growling slander.

...  

   

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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