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Stanza 75

The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes, 1923

Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 75

1923
A man knows not, if nothing he knows,That gold oft apes begets;One man is wealthy and one is poor,Yet scorn for him none should know.
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and NotesPublic domain in the United States
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