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“Such oft betide,” saith Hogni, “as the lives of men flit by;
But the evil day is a day, and on each day groweth a deed,
And a thing that never dieth; and the fateful tale shall speed.
Lo now, let us harden our hearts and set our brows as the brass,
Lest men say it, ‘They loathed the evil and they brought the evil to pass.’”