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Across the grim, gray, northern sea / The Danish warships went, / Snake-shaped, and manned by mighty men / On blood and plunder bent; / And they landed on a smiling land -- / The garden-land of Kent.
They sacked the farms, they spoiled the corn, / They set the ricks aflame; / They slew the men with axe and sword, / They slew the maids with shame; / Until, to Canterbury town, / Made mad with blood, they came.