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<poem>

Here

Edmund king,

of Angles lord,

protector of friends,

author and framer

of direful deeds,

o'erran with speed

the Mecian land,

where'er the course

of Whitwell-spring,

or Humber deep,

the broad brim-stream,

divides five towns,--

Leicester and Lincoln,

Nottingham and Stamford,

and Derby eke.

In thraldom long

to Norman Danes

they bowed through need,

and dragged the chains

of heathen men;

till, to his glory,

great Edward's heir,

Edmund the king,

refuge of warriors,

their fetters broke.

</poem> (Ingram, p.88)