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86 ‘T was his against his will now to make his home elsewhere, To leave the life that’s loaned us, as every man must fare. Anon the infuriate Foemen again together drew; Heartened himself the Hoard-Ward, and belched his breath anew; And he who once had wielded over a folk as Sire Was laboring now in sore straits, folded round with fire. Nor stood about him staunchly his own fighting crew, The bairns of the aethelings; but to the woods they flew, And there they saved their bodies. On one of them this wrought Cark and care of spirit: there is never aught Can alter loyal kinship for man of noble thought. |