in the Courtship of Ferb
Your house was great and well known,
though therein befell your wound;
there has he killed you in the place of the king;
although it has been done, yet it was blasphemous.
Brod has slain you and it became him not
so that through you he thrust through Airidech,
you yourself and your servant thus
at one time are fallen.
Great was the deed of the servant though an impious one—
what Brod has done was a mischief—
to slay a king of kings before his time.
He has slain us and him.
VI
The Bade.
O Maev, why lie you in sleep?
Do you know how it is with you?
If you be skilled in prophecy
it should be time for you to arise.
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