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Bor : BorrIn Norse mythology, the god Bor was the father of Odin, Ve and Vili by the frost giantess Bestla.Alternative: Borr Drew over me out of the merciless miles of the plain, --
Oh, now, unafraid, I am/am.html">am/am.html">am fain to face
To the edge of the wood I am drawn, I am drawn,
For a mete and a mark
So: [41]
Thus -- with your favor -- soft, with a reverent hand,
Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand
Free
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linger and curl [51]
the firm sweet limbs of a girl.
Softly the sand-beach wavers away to a dim gray looping of light.html">light.
The world lies east: how ample, the marsh and the sea.html">sea and the sky.html">sky!
Green, and all of a height, and unflecked with a light or a shade,
To the terminal.html">terminal blue of the main.
Oh, what is abroad in the marsh and the terminal sea? [61]
From the weighing of fate and the sad discussion of sin,
Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!
Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won
And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.
As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, [71]
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies
By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod
Oh, like to the greatness of God is the greatness within
Pours fast: full soon the time of the flood-tide must be:
About and about through the intricate channels that flow
Everywhere,
And the marsh is meshed with a million veins,
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