“As long as thou stayest by my hearth-side,

Child, thou’lt be like that Cranberry.

“But when thou goest upon thy journey

Thy beauty, alas, will fall from thee.

O youthful one, from thy braids so golden

Thy beauty swiftly away shall flee!”

VI
THE WREATH

Wreath, my wreath

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I have woven you, just you alone.