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And all Love’s implements of war,

And cried:

Are these not better far

Than relics? Upon them will we

Make oath and pledge most solemnly;

If on such things false oaths we sware

Our credit lost for ever were.

They swore on these, and nought beside,

For therein did their hearts confide,

And true their oath was, as might be

Sworn on the Holy Trinity.

ND while the barons rent the air

With shouts, as this great oath they sware,

Nature, who tendeth everything

That lives ’neath heaven’s blue sheltering.

Into her workshop entered straight,

Where swinketh she both rathe and late,

To forge such pieces as may be

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