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XXIII
FRITHIOF COMETH TO KING RING
King Ring high-throned at banquet sat, mead-quaffing at
Yule-tide;
The fair and gentle-visaged Queen sat silent by his side;
Like Spring by Autumn seated, they seemed together there,
In her was seen the Spring-time green, in him the Autumn
drear.
And lo! into the hall there came an unknown
greybeard in,
From head to foot enveloped in a wild bear’s shaggy skin;
With weak and weary gait upon his heavy staff he leant,
Still all the rest surpassing in stature as he went.
He sat him on the lowly bench that stood beside the
door,
That is the poor man’s place to-day, as’t was in days of
yore;
To mock with sneer and scornful laugh the underlings
began,
And pointed with the finger at the rude, uncouth, old man.
Forth flashed the ready fury from the stranger’s eyes; in
haste,
With a single hand he snatcheth up a courtier by the
waist,
And thoughtfully upon his head he turned the frightened
youth,
Then all the others held their peace—as we’d have done,
in sooth.
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