Then his divine eyes fell.

“I love the green Earth best,” he said,

“And I on Earth will dwell!” ...

Then Balder said, “The Earth is fair, and fair

Yea fairer than the stormy lives of gods,

The lives of gentle dwellers on the Earth;

For shapen are they in the likenesses

Of goddesses and gods, and on their limbs

Sunlight and moonlight mingle, and they lie

Happy and calm in one another’s arms