Maud, Locksley hall, and other poems . the lea : 37^ The Victim. The holy Gods, they must be appeased,So I pray you tell the truth to ^ have takeu our son,They will have his he your dearest ?Or I, the wife? The King bent low, with hand on brow, He stayd his arms upon his knee : O wife, what use to answer now ? For now the Priest has judged for King was shaken with holy fear ; The Gods, he said, would have chosen well:Yet both are near, and both are dear,And which the dearest I cannot tell! But the Priest was happy,His victim won : We have his dearest,His only son ! The rit
Maud, Locksley hall, and other poems . the lea : 37^ The Victim. The holy Gods, they must be appeased,So I pray you tell the truth to ^ have takeu our son,They will have his he your dearest ?Or I, the wife? The King bent low, with hand on brow, He stayd his arms upon his knee : O wife, what use to answer now ? For now the Priest has judged for King was shaken with holy fear ; The Gods, he said, would have chosen well:Yet both are near, and both are dear,And which the dearest I cannot tell! But the Priest was happy,His victim won : We have his dearest,His only son ! The rites prepared, the victim bared. The knife uprising toward the blowTo the altar-stone she sprang alone, Me, not my darling, no ! He caught her away with a sudden cry; Suddenly from him brake his shrieking /am his dearest, I — /am his dearest! rushd on the knife. The Victim. 377 And the Priest was happy, O, Father Odin,We give you a was his nearest ?Who was his dearest ?The Gods have answerd ;We give them the wife !.
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