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[164]. Long these songs | thou shalt, Loddfafnir,

Seek in vain to sing;

Yet good it were | if thou mightest get them,

Well, if thou wouldst them learn,

Help, if thou hadst them.

[165]. An eighteenth I know, | that ne’er will I tell

To maiden or wife of man,—

The best is what none | but one’s self doth know,

So comes the end of the songs,—