Unto thy tribe in days long since gone by.
What in Hibernia’s consecrated shrines
Was then entrusted to me by that God,
Who dwelt in human form, and did become
A conqueror o’er all the powers of death,
I had to bring to tribes, in whom still lived
A soul that brought a willing sacrifice,
To mighty Odin, and with sorrow thought
Upon the death of Balder, god of light.
The power, which from that message grew in thee,