And you have told me that their journey lies

Towards the country of the dead.

FORGAEL.

What matter

If I am going to my death, for there,

Or somewhere, I shall find the love they have promised.

That much is certain. I shall find a woman,

One of the ever-living, as I think—

One of the laughing people—and she and I

Shall light upon a place in the world’s core,