The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition

How it begins

The storm had ceased its wintry roar, Hoarse dash the billows of the sea; But who on Thule’s desert shore, Cries, Have I burnt my harp for thee? Macniel. That long, narrow, and irregular island, usually called the mainland of Zetland, because it is by far the largest of that Archipelago, terminates, as is well known to the mariners who navigate the stormy seas which surround the Thule of the ancients, in a cliff of immense height, entitled Sumburgh-Head, which presents its bare scalp and naked sides to the weight of a tremendous surge, forming the extreme point of the isle to the south-east.