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BALDUR

Grant him to us, O father!

ODIN

[Going apart.]

O thou unknown Destroyer and Deliverer,

Rape not again from me this nestling hope!

[He descends into the crater.]

BALDUR AND FREYJA

Grant him to us, Allfather, to be tamed!

FENRIS

[Clutching the snow at their feet, feebly.]

I—I am Allfather!

ODIN

Lovers, I grant him to you; but not here,

For this concession must be darkly hid

Till you have proved its beauteous consummation.

Not, therefore, here I grant, but yonder.

[Indicates the earth below them.]

There

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