Then did Hartmut leave her. All hearkened to her word;

They gave to the maiden cup-bearers, and carvers at the board:

The high-born lady’s wishes they bade should well be heeded;

Nor food nor drink she wanted: busy were they to bring her all she needed.

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Then spake one lovely maiden among the Hegeling band:

“When we on this are thinking, how from our fatherland

Our foes have brought us hither, to live unblest forever,

We still are bowed with sorrow; when in our homes, such woe we thought of never.”

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