And evén to God's own ear:

And the Lord was ware of the keen twin cry,

And wroth was he to hear.

He's tane the soul of the unsained child

That fled to death from birth;

He's tane the light of the wan sea wild,

And bid it burn on earth.

He's given the ghaist of the babe new-born

The gift of the water-sprite,

To ride on revel from morn to morn