Asunder the hinges rent, only the roof there

Was saved all sound, when the monster of evil

The guilty of crime-deeds had gat him to flight

Never hoping for life. Nay, lightly now may not

That matter be fled from, frame it whoso may frame it.

But by strife man shall win of the bearers of souls,

Of the children of men, compelled by need,

The abiders on earth, the place made all ready,

The stead where his body laid fast on his death-bed

Shall sleep after feast. Now time and place was it