The Nibelungenlied
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Upon his body shower’d

the sword-strokes keen and rife;⁠—

Ere long to be bewailèd

by many a hero’s wife⁠—.

His shield aloft he lifted,

and held the arm-brace low;

And drench’d full many a hauberk

with life-blood’s crimson flow.