IX.

Long time I lay unconscious. It befell

Some woodsmen found me, having heard the sound

Of fighting cease that, for two days, made dell

And dingle echo; ventured on the ground

For plunder; and it had not then gone well

With me, I fear, had not their leader found

That in some way I would repay his care;

So bore me to his hut and nursed me there.

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