[7]. “The bodies all | with my own hands then

I decked for the grave, | and the dead I buried;

A half-year brought me | this to bear;

And no one came | to comfort me.

[a]8]. “Then bound I was, | and taken in war,

A sorrow yet | in the same half-year;

They bade me deck | and bind the shoes

Of the wife of the monarch | every morn.

[9]. “In jealous rage | her wrath she spake,

And beat me oft | with heavy blows; [[415]]