However it shall go with thee,
They can not tweak thy beard, forsooth!
Yet thou canst learn of them the whole
Of war: it is for death or life;
But either issue of the strife
God and Saint Nicholas control.”
The sails are set, the keel cuts through
The foam, and hastens toward the west,
And Svea’s cliffs soon rise to view
In sunset flames: they stand at rest