The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris |
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Heavy was Sigmund's visage but fierce did his eyen glow,
“This is the deed of thy mastery;—we twain shall slay my foe—
And how if the foe were thy father?”—
“This is the deed of thy mastery;—we twain shall slay my foe—
And how if the foe were thy father?”—
Then he telleth him Siggeir's tale:
And saith: “Now think upon it; how shall thine heart avail
To bear the curse that cometh if thy life endureth long—
The man that slew his father and amended wrong with wrong?
Yet if the Gods have made thee a man unlike all men,
(For thou startest not, nor palest), can I forbear it then,
To use the thing they have fashioned lest the Volsung seed should die
And unavenged King Volsung in his mound by the sea-strand lie?”
And saith: “Now think upon it; how shall thine heart avail
To bear the curse that cometh if thy life endureth long—
The man that slew his father and amended wrong with wrong?
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(For thou startest not, nor palest), can I forbear it then,
To use the thing they have fashioned lest the Volsung seed should die
And unavenged King Volsung in his mound by the sea-strand lie?”
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