Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 21
1923The herds know well when home they shall fare,And then from the grass they go;But the foolish man his belly’s measureShall never know aright.Free to read · Built for close study
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The herds know well when home they shall fare,And then from the grass they go;But the foolish man his belly’s measureShall never know aright.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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