Home they brought her warrior dead:She nor swoon‘d,nor utter’d cry:
All her maidens,watching,said,“She must weep or she will die.”
Then they praised him,soft and low,Call‘d him worthy to be loved,Truest friend and noblest foe;Yet she neither spoke nor moved.
Stole a maiden from her place,Lightly to the warrior stept,Took the facecoth from the face;Yet she neither moved nor wept.
Rose a nurse of ninety years,Set his child upon her kneeLike summer tempest came her tears“Sweet my child,I live forthee.”