The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris |
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 | CHAPTER XVII. THE WOOD-SUN SPEAKETH
WITH THIODOLF.
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[“Two things by these blue edges in the face of the dawning I swear]
[Thiodolf.]“Two things by these blue edges in the face of the dawning I swear;
And first this warrior's ransom in the coming fight to bear,
And evermore to love thee who hast given me second birth.
And by the sword I swear it, and by the Holy Earth,
To live for the House of the Wolfings, and at last to die for their need.
For though I trow thy saying that I am not one of their seed,
Nor yet by the hand have been taken and unto the Father shown
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And I am the guest of their Folk-Hall, and each one there is my friend.
So with them is my joy and sorrow, and my life, and my death in the end.
Now whatso doom hereafter my coming days shall bide,
Thou speech-friend, thou deliverer, thine is this dawning-tide.”
| CHAPTER XVII. THE WOOD-SUN SPEAKETH
WITH THIODOLF.
The Collected Works of William Morris | |