Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 50
1923On the hillside drear the fir-tree dies,All bootless its needles and bark;It is like a man whom no one loves,—Why should his life be long?Free to read · Built for close study
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On the hillside drear the fir-tree dies,All bootless its needles and bark;It is like a man whom no one loves,—Why should his life be long?Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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