Then my heart burns, my fist clenches:

Fight! no other means I know of;

Fight I must, e'en should the whole world

Go to atoms with a crash.

Through my veins there flows no fish-blood;

And to-day, though somewhat feeble,

In the same case, I should stand there

By the chestnut-tree again."

"Wicked man," said Margaretta,

"That a fresh stroke from a halberd