书城英文图书加拿大学生文学读本(第5册)
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第13章 HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD

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.”