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As I stood exhausted amidst the dead, after the first worthy deed of my

life, I suddenly looked behind me, and there lay the Shadow, black in

the sunshine I went into the lonely tower, and there lay the useless

armour of the noble youths--supine as they

Ah, how sad it looked! It was a glorious death, but it was death My

songs could not comfort me noas almost ashamed that I was alive,

when they, the true-hearted, were no one through the trial, and had not failed And perhaps

I s of pride arose in hty form that lay dead by my hand

"After all, however," I said to iant was but a blunderer"

I left the bodies of friends and foes, peaceful enough when the

death-fight was over, and, hastening to the country below, roused the

peasants They caons to

carry the bodies I resolved to take the princes home to their father,

each as he lay, in the ariants, and found the keys of their castle, to which I repaired,

followed by a great coth I released the prisoners, knights and ladies, all in a sad

condition, froiants It hu rounddead by their lonely toere those to who out the thought born

in their brain, and uttered in visible form before ever I laid hold

thereupon Yet I did count reat dead

After a few hours spent in refreshing and clothing the prisoners, we all