The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris |
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Quoth the lad: “I went to the meal-sack, and therein was something quick,
And it moved, and I feared for the serpent, like a winter ashen stick
That I saw on the stone last even: so I durst not deal with the thing.”
And it moved, and I feared for the serpent, like a winter ashen stick
That I saw on the stone last even: so I durst not deal with the thing.”
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Loud Sigmund laughed, and answered: “I have heard of that son of a king,
Who might not be scared from his bread for all the worms of the land.”
And therewith he went to the meal-sack and thrust therein his hand,
And drew forth an ash-grey adder, and a deadly worm it was:
Then he went to the door of the cave and set it down in the grass,
While the King's son quaked and quivered: then he drew forth his sword from the sheath,
And said:
Who might not be scared from his bread for all the worms of the land.”
And therewith he went to the meal-sack and thrust therein his hand,
And drew forth an ash-grey adder, and a deadly worm it was:
Then he went to the door of the cave and set it down in the grass,
While the King's son quaked and quivered: then he drew forth his sword from the sheath,
And said:
“Now fearest thou this, that men call the serpent of death?”
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