To remind me thus of the change time brings—

Gudmund.

Nay, Margit, my meaning you read aright!

You were kind to me, both, in those far-away years—

Your eyes, when we parted were wet with tears.

We swore like brother and sister still

To hold together in good hap or ill.

’Mid the other maids like a sun you shone,

Far, far and wide was your beauty known.

You are no less fair than you were, I wot;