They should think him worthy, her and her mother both it well might gladden.
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If she her love would give him, as he had asked before,—
Ofttimes his heart was heavy for the love to her he bore,—
That he would ever serve her so long as he was living,
And many lands wide-reaching, held of his father, would to her be giving.
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But if she would not love him, she then would earn his hate;
He asked of her that kindly she his love would meet,
So that he to his fatherland his lovely bride might carry