This he hath made in the desert; the hell-saved all gladden.

Sure he hath put his benison, too, on milch-cow and bullock,

On the fowls of the air, and the man-eyed seals, and the otter.

III

But where in his Dûn in the great blue mainland of Heaven

God the All-Father broodeth, where the harpers are harping his glory;

There where He sitteth, where a river of ale poureth ever,

His great sword broken, His spear in the dust, He broodeth.

IV

And this is the thought that moves in his brain, as a cloud filled with thunder