The Wisdom Of The King
ams, s its
oude.
among to look at him
and to listen to er of a
little king w way off; and
when he saw her he loved, for shc was
beautiful~ range and pale beauty
unlike t Dana,
t mot
t as t of others, and
he
roubled h a
great o him when
told her of
y, and praised her simply and
frankly as the
bards; and o give
le in his
dreams. Overwness,
sed, and yet half refused,
for so marry some warrior who
could carry ain in his
arms. Day by day the king gave her
gifts; cups h ears of gold and find-
rinny ant
lands; clothough
o her
less beautiful t cloth woven
in till she was
ever between
yielding and hholding. he laid down
, and told he
urn to the world
and begin the
kind and mirthful Children of Dana drove
out the huge and gloomy and misshapen
People from under the
great Moods arc alonc immortal, and the;
creators of mortal things; and how every
Mood is a being t o mortal eyes,
the shape of Fair-brows, who dwells, as a
salmon, in the Dagda,
wy; or of Lir,
wers; or
of Angus, wo
birds; or of Len, th, from
whose furnace break rainbows and fiery
dehe children of
~)ana: and still sill
believe t a
beauty so much like wisdom could hide a
comm