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"I am sad," he said, "when I think of the youth whom I met twice in the

forests of Fairy Land; and who, you say, twice, with his songs, roused

you fro

noble in hiht, and not of deed He may

yet perish of vile fear"

"Ah!" returned the lady, "you saved him once, and for that I thank you;

for may I not say that I somewhat loved him? But tell me how you fared,

when you struck your battle-axe into the ash-tree, and he came and found

you; for so ar-child

came and took you away"

"As soon as I saw hiht, "I knew that earthly arainst such as he; and that th So I unclasped ood axe yet in azed at him with steady eyes On

he came, a horror indeed, but I did not flinch Endurance must conquer,

where force could not reach He cahastly