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CXLVII.
Coer.What? Ælla dead? and Bertha dying too?
So fall the fairest flowerets of the plain.
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Or who untwist the roll of fate in twain?
Ælla, thy glory was thy only gain,
For that, thy pleasure and thy joy was lost.
Thy countrymen shall rear thee on the plain
A pile of stones, as any grave can boast.
Further, a just reward to thee to be,
In heaven thou sing of God, on earth we'll sing of thee.
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