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12 To tell mankind’s beginning, how God Almighty wrought The earth, that shining lea-land, which waters fold about; Quoth how God set, triumphant, the sun and the moon As lights to lighten landsfolk; how he adorned soon With leaf and limb the fold all; and eke created birth For every kind that moveth on ocean, air, or earth. So lived the troop of tribesmen, in revel, wise and well, Till One began to do misdeed-this selfsame Fiend of hell. And that grim Hobgoblin was Grendel named by men, Great Stalker of the marches, who held the moor and fen; Housed with the brood of giants this joyless Wight the while, After Lord Creator had doomed his damned exile. (Upon Cain’s kin the Eternal avenged Abel’s blood. Cain gat no mirth from murder; God banished him from good, Afar from man, for sin’s sake. Thence woke the monster-brood, Ettins, elves, and ogres, and giants, too, that warred So long with God, who paid them at last their fit reward.) |
