A sceptre or a grave; a triumph or defeat.
Immovable they sit, mute as the grave,
Like sphinx of marble on the Theban plain;
While shine reflected in the limpid wave
The figures of the awful virgin train.
Impatient the decrees of fate to learn
Oft to this grove the proud Valkyrior come;
With questions sharp assail the Nornor stern,
Then soar aloft, through the wide world to roam,
And fill the troubled air with strange prophetic doom.